Radio Free Campus

Yale Needs More Free Speech! with guest Lauren Noble

In this episode of Radio Free Campus, podcast co-hosts Steve McGuire and Justin Garrison talk with Lauren Noble, founder and executive director of the Buckley Institute, about Yale's strengths and weaknesses when it comes to promoting free speech and intellectual diversity. Steve and Justin also discuss how a recent Yale report on trust in higher education could generate much needed campus freedom reforms at the Ivy League university. Website: https://www.goacta.org/ [https://www.goacta.org/] Campus Freedom Initiative: https://www.goacta.org/campus-freedom-initiative/ [https://www.goacta.org/campus-freedom-initiative/] Steve McGuire: https://www.goacta.org/staff/steven-mcguire/ [https://www.goacta.org/staff/steven-mcguire/] Justin Garrison: https://www.goacta.org/staff/justin-garrison/ [https://www.goacta.org/staff/justin-garrison/]

Keep Your Politics Out of Graduation!

In this episode of Radio Free Campus, co-hosts Steve McGuire and Justin Garrison discuss Israel-Palestine controversies, the coddling of students' minds, and AI resistance at various 2026 graduation ceremonies. Steve and Justin also announce Vanderbilt University Chancellor Daniel Diermeier as this episode's "Hero of the People" and Penn State Dickinson Law School as RFC's "Apparatchik of the Month." Website: https://www.goacta.org/ [https://www.goacta.org/] Campus Freedom Initiative: https://www.goacta.org/campus-freedom-initiative/ [https://www.goacta.org/campus-freedom-initiative/] Steve McGuire: https://www.goacta.org/staff/steven-mcguire/ [https://www.goacta.org/staff/steven-mcguire/] Justin Garrison: https://www.goacta.org/staff/justin-garrison/ [https://www.goacta.org/staff/justin-garrison/]

University of Austin vs. Higher Ed with guest Benjamin Crocker

In this episode of Radio Free Campus, podcast co-hosts Steve McGuire and Justin Garrison talk with Benjamin Crocker, University Dean at the University of Austin (UATX), about UATX's founding mission, its early successes as a new university, and how UATX sees itself as offering a compelling alternative to what students get from most American universities today. Want to join ACTA's Webinar on Intellectual Diversity on May 6th? Register here: https://www.goacta.org/event/no-two-minds-alike/ [https://www.goacta.org/event/no-two-minds-alike/]

Deplatforming Campus Speakers is Censorship!

In this episode of Radio Free Campus, co-hosts Steve McGuire and Justin Garrison analyze an argument from a Harvard Law Professor claiming efforts to deplatform invited campus speakers are not always censorship, but could be . . . "pre-emptive protest"? The podcast hosts also discuss the results of ACTA's Ohio Report Card, a study of policies and student perspectives on the free expression climates at Ohio State, Kent State, Miami, Cincinnati, and OHIO. Steve and Justin also announce UC Davis Law School as this episode's "Hero of the People" and a UCLA professor as RFC's "Apparatchik of the Month." Want to join ACTA's Webinar on Intellectual Diversity on May 6th? Register here: https://www.goacta.org/event/no-two-minds-alike/ [https://www.goacta.org/event/no-two-minds-alike/] Ohio Report Card: https://www.goacta.org/campus-freedom-initiative/oh-report-card/ [https://www.goacta.org/campus-freedom-initiative/oh-report-card/] Ohio Survey: https://www.goacta.org/resource/campus-experience-survey-an-assessment-of-students-at-four-year-public-universities-in-ohio/ [https://www.goacta.org/resource/campus-experience-survey-an-assessment-of-students-at-four-year-public-universities-in-ohio/] UCLA Report Card: https://www.goacta.org/campus-freedom-initiative/ucla-report-card/ [https://www.goacta.org/campus-freedom-initiative/ucla-report-card/] Website: https://www.goacta.org/ [https://www.goacta.org/] Campus Freedom Initiative: https://www.goacta.org/campus-freedom-initiative/ [https://www.goacta.org/campus-freedom-initiative/] Steve McGuire: https://www.goacta.org/staff/steven-mcguire/ [https://www.goacta.org/staff/steven-mcguire/] Justin Garrison: https://www.goacta.org/staff/justin-garrison/ [https://www.goacta.org/staff/justin-garrison/]

Controversial Course Topics, Self-Censorship in Class, and Institutional Neutrality—Oh My!

Episode Description: In this episode of Radio Free Campus, co-hosts Steve McGuire and Justin Garrison analyze a new policy on teaching controversial topics in the University of Texas System. The podcast hosts also discuss what a new survey from Gallup/Lumina reveals about student free speech experiences on their campuses. Steve and Justin also debate an article from Inside Higher Ed that provides a Rawlsian defense of institutional neutrality. The show hosts also announce the University of Wyoming as this episode's "Hero of the People" and a professor from Stanford University as RFC's "Apparatchik of the Month." ACTA Gold Standard for Freedom of Expression: UT-Austin [https://www.goacta.org/campus-freedom-initiative/ut-austin-report-card/] ACTA Gold Standard for Freedom of Expression Texas A&M [https://www.goacta.org/campus-freedom-initiative/texas-am-university-report-card/] ACTA Gold Standard for Freedom of Expression: University of Wyoming [https://www.goacta.org/campus-freedom-initiative/u-of-wyoming-report-card/] Website: https://www.goacta.org/ [https://www.goacta.org/] Campus Freedom Initiative: https://www.goacta.org/campus-freedom-initiative/ [https://www.goacta.org/campus-freedom-initiative/] Steve McGuire: https://www.goacta.org/staff/steven-mcguire/ [https://www.goacta.org/staff/steven-mcguire/] Justin Garrison: https://www.goacta.org/staff/justin-garrison/ [https://www.goacta.org/staff/justin-garrison/]