PEN America’s senior analyst Jeffrey Adam Sachs is a political scientist at Acadia University, where he specializes in free speech issues, academic freedom, and judicial politics in the Middle East. His writings have appeared in The Washington Post, Arc Digital, Heterodox Academy, and elsewhere.
Jeffrey Adam Sachs
Senior Analyst, PEN America
Articles by Jeffrey Adam Sachs
Rewriting the Accreditation Playbook
These proposed regulations seem purposely built to weaken accreditors and end their role as custodians of academic freedom.
Censors are Coming For The Students
PEN America has recorded more than 500 bills, executive orders, and system-wide regulations meant to censor educational speech.
When Neutrality Becomes Censorship: How State Laws are Silencing Campuses
Neutrality policies require careful articulation if they are not to have a chilling effect and cause more problems than they solve.
