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I’ve given about 200 public lectures, including many keynotes, named lectureships, and grand rounds. The following is an alphabetical summary list of where I have spoken or am scheduled to speak: Related links:

Attached is a PDF of my review of Paul Shankman’s excellent book, The Trashing of Margaret Mead.

t the request of The Chronicle of Higher Education, with which I’ve had a great publishing experience up until now, I wrote what was supposed to be an affectionate and humorous piece about types of archivists one might run into. It has upset enough archivists that I can see it is offensive to many of them, and…

[Background: I am the Publisher for East Lansing Info (ELi), a citizen-reporting, nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization. We publish only factual news and maintain a hyperlocal focus. To hear about why I decided to start this organization, you can read this essay I wrote for The Guardian.] In the next installment of this new blog, Hard News, Small…

The murders of five people at the newsroom of the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland, made me relieved I run a news organization with no newsroom. If someone wanted to come after me for my reporting, they’d get me – not my Managing Editor, not my tech managers, and not my reporters. At East Lansing Info (ELi),…

Tomorrow I’m starting something new. Tonight, I have this weird, calm feeling that sometimes descends on me when a colleague is suddenly caught in a shitstorm. The Atlantic has published a terrific, long-form piece by Jesse Singal on adolescents who might be transgender. I’ve been waiting forever for someone to write this piece. I’m so grateful to…

(Note: You can also read “Why I Escaped the ‘Intellectual Dark Web’” by me in the Chronicle of Higher Education.) Bari Weiss wanted to include me in that article on the Intellectual Dark Web, but I asked her a couple of weeks ago to take me out of it, which she did. Here, in a nutshell, is…

The photo above was taken by my Wellesley College Freedom Project host, Mustafa Akyol, just after we came out of my lecture last Tuesday night. I’m the person second from the right. Everyone else was apparently there to protest my speaking. Seeing this remarkable scene, I asked Mustafa if he would take that photo for me,…

As I’m on the plane headed to give my first talk of the academic year, I’m looking at my speaking schedule delighted at the variety. Later today I’ll be giving the Keynote at the annual faculty conference of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (The FIRE), a group whose work I value highly and am happy to support.…