The Jefferson Council president Tom Neale joins the Armstrong Williams Show to discuss antisemitism and free speech at the University of Virginia.

Jim Bacon summarizes a recent University of Virginia Board of Visitors meeting which addressed tensions in the UVA community between Jews and the vocal pro-Palestinian faction over the Israel-Gaza war.

Meet Christa Noel Robbins who teaches art history at the University of Virginia who was motivated to cancel class by solidarity with the "Yes on Divest Walkout."

Meet Rachel Spraker (she/they), assistant vice president of equity and inclusive excellence at the University of Virginia, and one of fifteen staff members in the university's Division for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI).

Meet Dr. Lanice Avery, assistant professor in the departments of psychology and women, gender, and sexuality, whose work as a "board-certified sexologist" conforms to the intersectional-oppression paradigm that is increasingly prevalent at UVA.

Morgan Bettinger has resolved her lawsuit with the University and its administrators. Learn more about her case and allegations of the UVA Administration’s responsibility for the alleged deprivations of her federally protected civil rights.

University of Virginia President Jim Ryan has announced the creation of the Committee on Institutional Statements to develop principles to guide official university statements on national and global events.

A University of Virginia student group is petitioning to hold a referendum demanding that the University of Virginia Investment Management Company divest itself of investments in corporations implicated by Israel's "apartheid" regime.

Today, "civil dialogue" at the University of Virginia means listening passively to the demands of the militant, ideological minority.

The University of Virginia's School of Education and Human Development maintains a program, Youth-Nex, that is dedicated to "supporting developmental science that is not only anti-racist but is in the service of dismantling white supremacy."

The University of Virginia relegated "alumnae relation" to a minor factor. In a list of seventeen published admissions criteria classified as "considered," "important," and "very important," legacy status was considered but not deemed important.

The battle for control of higher-ed institutions in Virginia is boiling over into the state legislature.

TJC executive director Jim Bacon joins the John Reid show to discuss political signage on UVA's Lawn doors. Does this violate the Lawn as a UNESCO World Heritage Site?

The backlash against Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in higher-ed may be gathering momentum across the country, but the University of Virginia is rolling out a new DEI initiative oblivious to the shift in the national mood.

If an event is held on a college campus and the university police department mobilizes twenty to thirty officers and auxiliary personnel to maintain order and keep everyone safe, who should pay the bill?

How do students respond to the statement, "I feel that I belong at the University of Virginia"? Does UVA President Ryan's emphasis on racial, ethnic, and religious identity make it easier for students to fit in?

The University of Virginia has paid more than $1.8 million in legal fees fighting a lawsuit filed by UVA Health employees who were fired, despite religious objections, for refusing to take the COVID vaccine. And that's just through November.

Jonathan Haidt is one of the most important public intellectuals in America today. If you're not familiar with his work, you need to be. You'll get a chance to hear him when he comes to the University of Virginia February 8 as a guest of The Jefferson Council.

Free speech and open dialogue are the best ways to drive pernicious ideas into oblivion. Sadly for UVA, there is widespread support among professors and students not only for banning ideas they find offensive, but for shaming and shunning those who support the right of people to even hold and express those ideas.