While the public seems to fondly believe that speech codes are a thing of the past — a bygone product of the “political correctness” movement of the 1980s and 1990s — they are alive and well on the modern college campus. As I explain in Unlearning Liberty, these days, you’re unlikely to open up a student handbook and […]
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The Reality of College Censorship, Part 1: Censorpalooza
By Greg Lukianoff, guest-blogging on October 30, 2012 1:00 pm in First Amendment, Freedom of Speech at Colleges and Universities
As those of you who read my blog yesterday know, Eugene invited me to be a guest contributor to The Volokh Conspiracy this week in order to discuss some of the issues raised in my recently released book, Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate. Yesterday, I described the negative impact that suppressing […]
Free Speech on Campus & ‘Unlearning Liberty’
By Greg Lukianoff, guest-blogging on October 29, 2012 10:00 am in First Amendment, Freedom of Speech at Colleges and Universities
Thank you to Eugene for inviting me to guest blog on The Volokh Conspiracy this week. By way of introduction, I am a First Amendment lawyer and the president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), and my new book, Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate, hit the bookshelves […]