Showing posts with label campus free speech. Show all posts
Showing posts with label campus free speech. Show all posts

Friday, April 13, 2018

Campus free speech is threatened. But how much?; The Washington Post, April 13, 2018

Megan McArdle, The Washington Post; Campus free speech is threatened. But how much?

[Kip Currier: A timely piece, given yesterday's Information Ethics final lecture of the term on Intellectual Freedom and Censorship.]

"At Heterodox Academy, a site devoted to ideological diversity on campus, Sean Stevens and Jonathan Haidt dive into that first question. The answer they come up with is: Yes, support for free speech really does seem to be decreasing among the current generation of college students. And presumably as a result, speech-chilling activity is increasing."