More Professors Speak Out
Nicholas H. Wolfinger is Professor of Family and Consumer Studies and Adjunct Professor of Sociology at the University of Utah, where he has taught since 1998. He is the author of four books, most recently Thanks for Nothing: The Economics of Single Motherhood since 1980 (Oxford University Press, 2024). In 2025, Wolfinger edited Professors Speak Out: The Truth About Campus Investigations (Academica Press, 2025), a groundbreaking anthology of accounts by faculty members who told of their investigations by campus authorities. Wolfinger’s work has appeared in the Atlantic, Mother Jones, National Review, and various academic journals. Between 2016 and 2021, his university investigated him three times.
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.
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