Monday, April 20, 2026

Faculty Flee Texas Censorship

Fed up with the state's censoring of Plato, Joan of Arc and Romeo and Juliet, humanities professors are leaving Texas public institutions in pursuit of academic freedom. Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn't teach Plato's Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher's work violated the system's restrictions on gender and sexuality content. Peterson's colleague Linda Radzik, a philosophy professor and associate department head, is jumping ship with similar concerns about academic freedom. Lucy Schiller, a nonfiction writing professor at Texas Tech University, also has plans to leave her job. They are just a few of the faculty members giving up their jobs at Texas public institutions

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