Archive - Free the Inquiry

The Weekly: The U.S. Continues Its Fall on the Academic Freedom Index

But the experience of freedom seems increasingly divided along political lines.

Mar 21 • Nicole Barbaro Simovski, Ph.D.

Living Between Limits | inquisitive Issue #6 "Limits"

Boundaries are not neutral and are often tools of exclusion

Mar 19 • Krystal Stark

A Delicate Balance | inquisitive Issue #6 "Limits"

Promoting free inquiry requires maintaining a constant tension between openness and discipline

Mar 17 • Alex Arnold

The Weekly: Lobbying Campaigns, Legislation, and New Campus Policies

Plus, 71% of public doctoral university presidents cite “political interference” as the fastest-growing risk to their university

Mar 14 • Nicole Barbaro Simovski, Ph.D.

Bad Reads | inquisitive Issue #6 "Limits"

How the publishing industry came to embrace an ethos of limitations

Mar 12 • Bernard Schweizer

The Case for Transparency in Teaching | inquisitive Issue #6 "Limits"

We need to rethink the limits of institutional privacy

Mar 11 • Nicole Barbaro Simovski, Ph.D.

The Heterodox View of Viewpoint Diversity

Scholars should recognize that they sometimes have things to learn from people who live and work and form opinions outside the ivory tower

Mar 10 • John Tomasi

The Weekly: Federal Pressure Continues and Reform Factions Form

And UNC makes headlines for its new academic freedom policy.

Mar 7 • Nicole Barbaro Simovski, Ph.D.

The Limits of Academic Freedom | inquisitive Issue #6 "Limits"

Academic freedom must accommodate a broad range of ideas and propositions

Mar 5 • Abhishek Saha

The Paradoxical Limits of Heterodoxy | inquisitive Issue #6 "Limits"

Heterodoxy believes in its own orthodoxy

Mar 2 • Tony Banout

Pushing Past Limits | inquisitive Issue #6 "Limits"

HxA was founded to fight against limits to open inquiry and viewpoint diversity

Mar 2

February 2026

The Weekly: Building vs. Banning in Pursuits of Viewpoint Diversity

Are we just trying to “correct,” or would we rather broaden the frontier of inquiry?

Feb 28 • Nicole Barbaro Simovski, Ph.D.

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