Earlier this week The New York Times came out with an op-ed from Greg Lukianoff, the long-time Executive Director of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) about a seemingly shocking story: Texas A&M University’s philosophy department had forbidden a philosophy professor there from teaching Plato due to bans on gender ideology enacted by the Texas legislature and then subsequently adopted by A&M’s board of Trustees.
Lukianoff, a self-styled “civil libertarian” has in the past done a good job of calling out the left on free speech issues, particularly on university campuses, but increasingly in recent years he has targeted the right in a successful attempt to achieve “mainstream” credibility, a change that has even been noticed in, among other places, the New York Times. Sadly, in its most recent attempts to be even-handed, h…
