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The University Blacklist Course: A Model for Bringing Controversial Ideas to the Classroom
December 3, 2020 By Cecelia Vieira Higher education administrators, tasked with maintaining a school’s commitments to free expression, address everything from open inquiry protections to speech code reforms. Looking beyond policies, the task of fostering a campus culture which both celebrates viewpoint diversity and acknowledges our country’s history of censorship can be especially challenging, yet […]Read More -
An Alternative Standard for Dealing with Extremist Speakers
March 19, 2020 By Steven F. Hayward The ongoing campus controversies over free speech versus hate speech grind along deepening ruts that cannot escape two difficulties. The first is that a rigorous and intelligible definition of “hate speech” is elusive. The second is that current First Amendment jurisprudence defaults in favor of maximum protection for […]Read More -
Six Strategies for Conversing on Campus
September 9, 2019 By Jacqueline Pfeffer Merrill Freshmen are beginning to arrive on campuses across the country, often far from home for the first time, and meeting classmates from diverse cultural communities. The dorm lounges will be full of arguments about big political, cultural, and social issues over late-night pizza. Learning about the different cultural […]Read More