"The Humiliation of Higher Ed" Inside Higher Ed, January 16, 2024
"It's Not the University President's Job to Police Free Speech," The New Republic, December 18, 2023. Co-authored with Michael Bérubé
"Subnational Authoritarianism and the Campaign to Control Higher Education," Academe magazine, Fall 2023
"The Uses and Abuses of the Kalven Report," October 24, 2023; "Authoritarians Come for the Academy," August 14, 2023
"Does It Matter Whether We Know What Academic Freedom is?" Jennifer Ruth, Michael Bérubé,
Los Angeles Review of Books
It's Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022) Co-authored with Michael Bérubé
The Right to Learn. Forthcoming from Beacon Press, April 2024.
"Why Stanford Law Students Were Right to Protest," March 23, 2023; "The Increasingly Authoritarian War on Tenure," February 23, 2022; "When Academic Bullies Claim the Mantle of Free Speech," March 18, 2021;
"Whose University? The Board's"
Winter 2024
"When Professors' Speech Is Disqualifying" The New Republic, April 2022, Co-authored with Michael Bérubé
"Adjunct and Tenured Faculty Must Unite to Resist Pandemic Opportunism on Campus," Truthout, June 15, 2022
"Ron DeSantis's Racial Fascism," Academe Blog, January 5, 2023
Ryan Cooper reviews It's Not Free Speech in The American Prospect: "The Cure for Hate Speech Is Not More Speech"
Interview with Rath Wang of "Taiwan Talks," February 23, 2023
"Chinese Retaliation: Behind China's Strong Words for the US and Taiwan"
"US Faces Academic Authoritarianism," Taipei Times, August 6, 2002
"The Politics of Ambiguity" (May 2021), "What Would Siegfried Kracauer Say About Nocturnal Animals?" (March 2018)
African American Policy Forum Senate Resolution Campaign
Press on the faculty senate resolutions: The Nation Washington Post, Salon, Inside Higher Ed, AACTE Ed Prep Matters
"Who's Silencing Whom On University Campuses," Ms., 11/12/2021
"What Happened? Higher Education in the Long Sixties" (Spring 2022), "The Libertarian Playbook" (Winter 2022), "Academic Freedom and China," co-authored with Yu Xiao (Fall 2019)
The Humanities, Higher Education, and Academic Freedom (Palgrave, 2015). Co-authored with Michael Bérubé.
"'A Common Purpose': An Interview with Shiu Wen-Tang, President of Taiwan Association of University Professors", "Today's Decision Creates More Unjust Barriers to Higher Ed" "Understanding Generational Differences in Attitudes about Academic Freedom" "Academic Freedom and the Lesson of Professor Patrick Michaels" "Linfield: A University or an Old Boys' Club?" "Faculty Stand Together" " "Questions for Eddie R. Cole" "Faculty, You Have Power! Use It!" "Lessons Learned Revisited: Rethinking Academic Freedom" "Jim Crow 2.0" "Did the Libertarians Open the Door to the Authoritarians?" "What Can We Do About McCarthyism 2.0?" "No Neutral Ground?"
Videoessay on Malcolm X (Lee, 1992)
Off screen space example Brighter Summer Day.mp4Videoessay on A Brighter Summer Day (Yang, 1991)
Ruth Platform and Elephant Sitting Still.mp4
Videoessays: "Time and Space in Platform (Jia, 2000) and An Elephant Sitting Still" (Hu, 2018), "Neoliberal Space in Andrei Zvyagintsev's Elena"
"Flannery O'Connor's Mrs. Turpin, Hannah Arendt's Adolf Eichmann, and Dreams of Boxcars" Philosophy and Literature (2018)
"Academic Freedom in an Age of Mistrust" Journal of Academic Freedom (2016)
"A Fragile Freedom in a Precarious Republic" Journal of Academic Freedom (2017)
