I have this article forthcoming in several months in the George Mason Law Review, and I wanted to serialize a draft of it here. There is still time to edit it, so I'd love to hear people's feedback. The material below omits the footnotes (except a few that I've moved into text, marked with {}s, as I normally do when I move text within quotes); if you want to see the footnotes—or read the whole draft at once—you can read this PDF. Here are the opening sections:
Introduction
The Trump Administration has been trying to attach "viewpoint diversity" mandates to federal funding, especially for universities. This Essay analyzes the parallels between these new proposals and a much older one: the Fairness Doctrine.
