The new clash of rights

Inside Higher Ed: “[David French], a senior counsel to the Alliance Defense Fund, said that in the Supreme Court case and the Eastern Michigan ruling, ‘a disturbing trend’ is emerging of ‘what I would call excessive deference to university administrators’ to define limits around ‘the market place of ideas.’ French said that, in contrast to the view that academe should feature ‘a freewheeling exchange of ideas,’ these rulings ‘permit restrictions’ on religious students and groups. And he said that the Eastern Michigan ruling may create a new way for public universities to enforce speech codes — simply by making them into curricular requirements.”