Brandeis University

has been betrayed and stifled.
While some commentators such as Abdullah Antepli, the Muslim chaplain and adjunct faculty of Islamic Studies at Duke University, applauded the decision and warned against "making renegades into heroes," other academic commentators such as the University of Chicago's Jerry Coyne and the George Mason University Foundation Professor David Bernstein criticized the decision as an attack on academic values such as freedom of inquiry and intellectual independence from religious pressure groups.
In 2017, a planned student performance of a play called "Buyer Beware" about Lenny Bruce by Brandeis alumnus Michael Weller was first postponed over concerns about racism, then prompting the playwright to withdraw the play in favor of staging it elsewhere.
The university adopted official free expression principles in 2018. A new presidential taskforce to review the university's free expression guidelines was set up in 2024.
In 2021, a student group's "oppressive language list" was removed from …