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Students at the University of Michigan, beware. If you say anything politically incorrect or out-of-line with the political and social orthodoxy on your campus, you may get a knock on your dorm room door from the university’s equivalent of the Thought Police, and be forced into a re-education camp. Or you may be suspended or thrown out of school, potentially damaging your educational prospects and your entire future professional career. If this sounds like an exaggeration, consider a new lawsuit filed in federal court in Michigan by Speech First, Inc., against the president of the University of Michigan, other...

Our core mission here at Heat Street is to protect and defend free speech from social justice warriors who want to silence it. So I’m particularly proud to be able to report that, after a series of stories and FOIA requests by Heat Street political editor Jillian Melchior, the University of Northern Colorado has closed its ‘Bias Response Team’—for good. University President Kay Norton, in her ‘State of the Union’ college address, announced she was throwing in the towel: “We will no longer have a separate process for bias-related concerns,” Norton said in her prepared remarks.Jillian’s reports on the free-speech...