MFSA Commentary

An update on MFSA's 2025 activities from President Wayne Stargardt '74.

Jonathan Rauch, a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, is author of 'Kindly Inquisitors' and ...

MFSA weighs in on a student speaker controversy at this year's OneMIT Commencement ceremony

MIT has announced significant structural changes in how it approaches DEI-related matters at the Ins...

MFSA President Wayne Stargardt updates members on MFSA's activities in the second half of 2024, and ...

MFSA comments on the suspension of a student publication over an essay denouncing pacifism in the co...

The Executive Chair of the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium discusses his work infusing liberal principles, f...

MFSA's successful second annual conference featured a keynote speech by Harvard University Professor...

In FIRE and College Pulse's 2025 College Free Speech Rankings, MIT's position declines, pointing to ...

MFSA President Wayne Stargardt shares an update on MFSA's accomplishments from the past year and pre...

MIT banned the use of DEI statements for faculty hiring and promotion in April 2024, with MIT Presid...

MFSA's statement on the unsanctioned pro-Palestinian encampment on Kresge Oval, and the need for fre...

MFSA President Wayne Stargardt shares highlights from 2023 and goals for 2024

Following the controversy over the last few months, MFSA makes three suggestions for how MIT can reb...

National coverage of MIT President Sally Kornbluth's congressional testimony features comments from ...

MFSA responds to recent disruptive protests at MIT and ensuing administrative actions.

The protection of free speech is most vital when the speech is extremely unpopular, highly controver...

MFSA's letter to President Kornbluth giving a high level summary of the survey of MFSA members earli...

The Board of the MIT Free Speech Alliance wrote an op-ed for The Tech published February 17.

With unequivocal commitment to protecting free speech and academic freedom, MIT, often viewed as the...

A more worrisome thought is that MIT faculty are scared to sponsor a dissident like Kirsch. I hope t...

Now is the time for MIT to reaffirm strongly its support for free speech, viewpoint diversity and ac...

Members of MIT’s faculty have organized to promote the adoption of The Chic...

I've since heard that some other MFSA members who attended the town halls had more positive experien...

Dear Big Tech in the US, please work even harder to match your pal Wechat in terms of censorship. I ...

The MIT Alumni Association sponsored the “MIT Alumni Association Town Hall on Freedom of Expre...

This post collects four April 2022 articles on free speech issues that might be of interest to read...

Ironically, the whole point of freedom of speech, from its beginning, has been to enable people to s...