Yale Law School has dominated much of the news over the past month, but unfortunately for the once-vaunted institution, this seems to be one rare exception to the time-tested adage “there’s no such thing as bad press.” On March 10, Alliance Defending Freedom attorney Kristen Waggoner and American Humanist Association attorney Monica Miller went to […]
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On Monday morning, Alliance Defending Freedom published a Freedom Matters episode that sets forth the Philadelphia Statement as a tangible solution the pressing need to recommit to free speech and civil discourse. The video asks critical question: Will our generation be the one that saved free speech, or the one that gave it up? This is the […]
“This summer—just as saying something controversial (or not saying something mandatory) got numerous charitable leaders excoriated, several academic leaders dumped, a host of editors and writers ousted, and articles and books cancelled by angry mobs—something interesting happened,” Philanthropy Roundtable wrote in its quarterly magazine. “Symmetrical open letters were published by separate groups of center-left thinkers and center-right thinkers, […]
“In today's polarized political climate, many people are afraid to voice their beliefs,” Love and Fidelity Network executive director Alain Oliver writes. “Across ideologies, philosophies, and religious backgrounds, many have found themselves demonized and silenced. We at the Love and Fidelity Network, and our students, are too frequently subjected to retaliation for emphasizing the importance of discussing […]
With over 15,000 signatures since its August 11 launch, the Philadelphia Statement continues to draw support from across a wide spectrum of ideological beliefs and spheres of influence. As the Christian Post reported Friday morning, new signers include Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon and theologian Wayne Grudem, who highlight a newly released list of public signatories to the Statement. […]
At its website Thursday, Americans for Prosperity CEO Emily Seidel voiced her support for the Philadelphia Statement and the thousands of everyday Americans who have signed onto the Statement since its launch on August 11. Read the article here.
Writing at the Toronto Sun on Monday, George Mason University Professor of Economics Walter E. Williams clapped back at censorship and microaggressions on college campuses, pointing to the Philadelphia Statement as an encouraging sign of a much-needed recommitment to free speech. Read the article here.
Praising it as a “much-needed statement in response to the prevalent cancel culture that is threatening the bedrock of American right of free speech,” senior editor and director of the cultural program at the Independent Women’s Forum Charlotte Hays encouraged readers to read and sign the Philadelphia Statement. Read the article here.
Writing at the Washington Examiner, Hoover Institution research fellow and founder of the AHA Foundation Ayaan Hirsi Ali pointed out the Philadelphia Statement’s importance in fighting back against cancel culture and what she called “the ideological straightjacket of critical race theory”. Rather than bullying others into silence, Hirsi Ali wrote, now is the time to rally […]