How Texas is wielding freedom of speech as a political weapon
Texas cannot make up its mind about free speech.
In 2019, it enacted legislation seeking to promote a robust and uninhibited exchange of ideas in its public colleges and universities. Aptly called the Protected Expression on Campus Act, that law required higher education institutions to develop and promulgate policies protecting freedom of speech and assembly and to make those policies public. It prohibited them from preventing students or faculty from inviting speakers to campus because...