Nico Perrino(@NicoPerrino ):Efforts to cancel commencement speakers for wrongthink are common. So common in fact that two decades ago @TheFIREorg took to calling commencement season "disinvation season." Too often administrations capitulate to these demands by pivoting to speakers or ceremonies so bland that they become banal. And by rewarding the cancelers, they incentivize more cancelation demands. Fortunately, @nyuniversity isn't backing down. We've found that when universities state unequivocal commitments like this, the demands peter out. It's when you equivocate, or try to please everyone, that cancelation voices grow louder.

2026.05.14 17:29

Efforts to cancel commencement speakers for wrongthink are common. So common in fact that two decades ago @TheFIREorg took to calling commencement season "disinvation season." Too often administrations capitulate to these demands by pivoting to speakers or ceremonies so bland that they become banal. And by rewarding the cancelers, they incentivize more cancelation demands. Fortunately, @nyuniversity isn't backing down. We've found that when universities state unequivocal commitments like this, the demands peter out. It's when you equivocate, or try to please everyone, that cancelation voices grow louder.

Benjamin Ryan@benryanwriter

2026.05.13 15:50

NYU professor @JonHaidt, who has stood at the forefront of the movement to challenge academia’s culture of suppressing the free exchange of ideas, is facing a campaign to cancel his graduation address.