More Professors Speak Out

Faculty members recount their struggles against mounting state interference and sweeping laws that constrain academic inquiry. Their narratives reveal how campus investigations become punitive, exposing evolving assaults on academic freedom from multiple political fronts, with compelling accounts even from Canada.

More Professors Speak Out is the sequel to the critically acclaimed 2025 anthology Professors Speak Out: The Truth About Campus Investigations, which gave voice to faculty members investigated by their institutions. This new volume’s stories reveal how threats to academic freedom have evolved and diversified. While many of the first book’s narratives centered on investigations triggered by allegations of racial insensitivity during the post-George Floyd reckoning, these new accounts expose a different landscape: faculty targeted by the expanding reach of state power, as state legislatures impose sweeping new laws governing what can be taught and researched at public universities. The collection also features Canadian academics who have clashed with the identitarian orthodoxies of the Justin Trudeau era. Together, these stories demonstrate that the assault on academic freedom is not the exclusive province of the political left or right—it comes from all directions. Finally, this new volume reaffirms a truism of the first book: in higher education, the process – the investigation alone – is often the punishment.