Free speech and liberal education /
The status of free speech and academic freedom in the nation's colleges and universities has become an explosive issue. Reports of disruptions and disinvitations of speakers and a host of new speech-inhibiting policies instituted by campus bureaucracies are now commonplace. Critics claim that t...
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Washington, D.C. :
Cato Institute,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: A free speech crisis in higher education?
- Framing the problem
- What is the university? Truth, the intellectual polis, and historical change
- Free speech and academic freedom
- Major threats to academic free speech: contemporary policies and related aspects
- The major threats: structural and more universal aspects
- Contemporary surveys: making America safe for peanuts
- Fitting it all together: the campus, the good life, and the republic
- Campus mobilization and administrative reform.