{"id":279294,"date":"2026-05-05T05:48:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T05:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/279294\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T05:48:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T05:48:31","slug":"texas-versus-freedom-another-philosopher-is-leaving-a-public-university-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/279294\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas versus Freedom: Another Philosopher Is Leaving a Public University in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christy Mag Uidhir<\/a> will be giving up his position as professor of philosophy at the University of Houston<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Readers may recall that the administration at the University of Houston had adopted the \u201cindoctrination narrative\u201d<\/a>, a pretext for violating the academic freedom of professors to teach what and how they judge they ought to. Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences,\u00a0Daniel P. O\u2019Connor<\/a>, asked all faculty in the college to complete a form declaring that they\u2019re not indoctrinating their students.<\/p>\n

At the time,\u00a0Professor Mag Uidhir stated<\/a> that he had told the dean and his department chair he would not be completing any such form.<\/p>\n

He now writes:<\/p>\n

I have notified the University of Houston that I will be resigning my position as Professor of Philosophy effective June 1st, 2026. Not sure what I\u2019ll be doing next, but I do know that whatever it is, I won\u2019t be doing it in Texas.<\/p>\n

Professor Mag Uidhir is one of several philosophers to leave public universities in Texas over threats to academic freedom.\"\"<\/p>\n

Linda Radzik is leaving Texas A&M<\/a> for Binghamton. She said:<\/p>\n

I\u2019m moving because of the censorship policies at Texas A&M. My colleagues and students there have been wonderful. They are doing their best in very difficult times. The Board of Regents has broken trust with them. <\/p>\n

Martin Peterson, who was ordered to remove readings by Plato<\/a> from his philosophy course, is also leaving Texas A&M<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yet another philosopher, Elek Lane<\/a>, turned down an offer from Texas A&M because, he said<\/a>, \u201cPoliticians, not professors, decide what is taught in Texas classrooms.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in the state,\u00a0Texas State University recently fired a professor<\/a> for a talk he gave on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. And Texas Tech recently implemented draconian restrictions<\/a> on teaching material related to sex, gender, and sexual orientation.<\/p>\n

Professor Mag Uidhir works in aesthetics. You can learn more about his writings at his site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christy Mag Uidhir will be giving up his position as professor of philosophy at the University of Houston.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-279294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}