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![Screenshot continuing Derek Thompson's tweet thread. The text reads: "...All these policies feel like solutions because they're brisk, they name enemies, and they take on the most visible source of frustration. But they are much better as villain-naming exercises than they are as a complete public policy. On their own, each creates other problems: less housing built, less clean electricity built, abdicating energy policy by encouraging AI firms to build data centers abroad in unsavory countries with more emissions, etc. I can't think of a single economic populist idea that wouldn't be helped with a little dose of economics, which is why it's troubling when I see the left participating in, and even celebrating, the great unlearning of economics." Below the text is a quoted tweet from Nathan J Robinson (@NathanJRobinson) dated April 30 sharing the article. It reads "an economist explains how rent control is actually fine and good" with a link to currentaffairs.org. The quoted tweet includes a preview image showing protesters holding red signs reading "WE NEED RENT [CONTROL]" with a person speaking at a microphone, and the article headline "Rent Control Is Fine, Actually."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:odirquz55urhatqrqqe2dzhl/bafkreifrn4je4pp5l5w5mokdgwh36yc6zchhrlx4lg6gu6ipor3wy6r3te)
![Dear Dr. Sweet,
I hereby submit my S 2026 syllabus for PHIL 111, Contemporary Moral Issues, for mandatory censorship review.
The syllabus has not changed much since I last taught the course. I have made some minor adjustments to the module on Race and Gender Ideology and to the lecture on Sexual Morality. These topics are commonly covered in this type of course nationwide, and the material is discussed in depth in the assigned textbook (Fiala and MacKinnon, 10th edition). I also ask my students to read a few passages from Plato (Aristophanes' myth of the split humans and Diotima's Ladder of Love).
Please note that my course does not "advocate" any ideology; I teach students how to structure and evaluate arguments commonly raised in discussions of contemporary moral issues.
If you interpret System Rule 08.01 §2.1(b) as prohibiting these topics, I would like to remind you that the U.S. Constitution protects my course content. Texas A&M is a public institution bound by the First Amendment. The Supreme Court has noted that academic freedom is "a special concern of the First Amendment, which does not tolerate laws that cast a pall of orthodoxy over the classroom" (Keyishian v. Board of Regents, 385 U.S. 589, 603 [1967]).
Another relevant precedent is Sweezy v. New Hampshire. Here is Chief Justice Earl Warren for the majority in 1957:
"The essentiality of freedom in the community of American universities is almost self-evident. No one should underestimate the vital role in a democracy that is played by those who guide and train our youth. To impose any straitjacket upon the intellectual leaders in our colleges and universities would imperil the future of our Nation. No field of education is so thoroughly comprehended by man that new discoveries cannot yet be made. Particularly is that true in the social sciences, where few, if any, principles are accepted as absolutes. Scholarship cannot flourish in an atmosphere of suspicion and distrust. Teachers and stu](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5pjg2eunftajrebw6bxtq44g/bafkreias47524bi4ukbmlqalsyb47xjavdti7dk2khrtcpgrfedietsnee)
