Showing posts with label speech-chilling activity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label speech-chilling activity. 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."