By Greg Lukianoff
Lukianoff walks readers throughout the lifetime of a modern day university pupil, from orientation to the top of freshman yr. via this lens, he describes startling violations of unfastened speech rights: a scholar in Indiana punished for publicly analyzing a booklet, a pupil in Georgia expelled for a pro-environment university he published on fb, scholars at Yale banned from placing an F. Scott Fitzgerald quote on a T blouse, and scholars around the nation corralled into tiny free speech zones” once they desired to exhibit their views.
But Lukianoff is going additional, demonstrating how this tradition of censorship is bleeding into the bigger society. As he explores public controversies concerning Juan Williams, Rush Limbaugh, invoice Maher, Richard Dawkins, Larry Summerseven Dave Barry and Jon StewartLukianoff paints a stark photograph of our skill as a state to debate very important concerns rationally. Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the tip of yankee Debate illuminates how intolerance for dissent and debate on today’s campus threatens the liberty of each citizen and makes us all a little bit dumber.
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