academic freedom

Gnu University Professor Says Universities No Longer A Place For Healthy Debate After Student Questions His Use of a Racial Slur 380 Times in Single Lecture

Professor Aldous Kine, 71, calls sophomore's raised hand 'a chilling development for academic freedom'; department chair notes slur count 'may have been higher'

By Claire Beaulieu · Mar 11, 2026

Graham Holt at his desk in the TNNN offices on Tuesday, the day his column was published.

Opinion

I Am Being Silenced, and the Proof Is That You Are Reading This

A classical liberal reflects on the suppression of his views, which appear below, in full, in a newspaper

By Graham Holt · Mar 5, 2026

Close-up, slightly overhead shot of a few loose-leaf notebook pages spread on a worn school desk, filled edge-to-edge with dense teenage handwriting in multiple ink colors, featuring a rough hand-drawn map of an island with coastline details and a naval base sketched in the north, alongside a hand-drawn timeline with an arrow stretching back toward a label at the far left — soft overcast light filtering through a classroom window illuminates the pages, pencil smudges and correction marks visible throughout, the margins crowded with annotations and small doodles.

Local

School Board Moves to Suppress Unauthorized Third Curriculum Assembled by Students from Traded Notes

Hybrid history document, described as 'alarmingly coherent,' circulating among seventh and eighth graders at Founders' Memorial High School

By Claire Beaulieu · Mar 4, 2026

Local

School Board Approves Both Competing History Curricula in Unprecedented 'Dual Track' Compromise

Students will learn one of two incompatible versions of local history depending on classroom assignment. Testing accommodations forthcoming.

By James Okonkwo · Mar 4, 2026

NNNN anchor Dale Forsythe stands at the broadcast desk during Tuesday's Evening Forum. Senator Chandrasekaran is visible in the foreground.

News

NNNN Editor-in-Chief's Directive to Restrain Senate Guest Raises Questions About Industry Standards, Some Say

Bari Weiss instructed on-air anchor to hog-tie and gag sitting senator during live broadcast; editorial integrity discussion ensues

By James Okonkwo · Mar 5, 2026

Graham Holt at his desk in the TNNN offices, photographed Tuesday.

Opinion

Who, Exactly, Is Being Harmed by This Conversation?

A classical liberal asks the question no one else will, because no one else has the courage, or possibly the patience

By Graham Holt · Mar 4, 2026

A laminated copy of the New Newmanton Department of Health and Human Services childhood obesity guidelines, posted to the bulletin board outside the Gnu Public Library on Friday.

News

Health Department Issues Childhood Obesity Guidelines: 'Be Born Thin, Free of Disability and Stay That Way Until You Die'

State nutritionists say the seven-word directive 'covers the full continuum of preventive care'; implementation timeline not yet determined

By Claire Beaulieu · Mar 6, 2026

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