In the 1980s and 90s universities across the country went to war with free speech and free thought by imposing politically correct speech codes. Despite public outcry against college censorship and unambiguous legal defeats for speech codes, thirty years later it is apparent that free speech lost and the negative consequences of this defeat pervade our society.
Unlearning Liberty not only recounts dozens of shocking examples of censorship on campus, including students and faculty members punished for things as harmless as publicly reading a book, protesting a parking garage on Facebook, and placing a pop culture quote on one’s office door, it also explains why the startling intolerance for dissent on campus harms us all. While some have accepted repressive political correctness as a relatively benign component of the college experience, it is having a toxic effect on students, the quality of higher education, and our society’s inclination and ability to talk through serious political and social issues.
Constitutional lawyer Greg Lukianoff walks readers through the life of a modern-day student, from high school to the last day of their first semester, to show how students are being systemically miseducated about what it means to live in a free society. Lukianoff demonstrates how campus censorship, courts, and bureaucracies, are teaching students by word and example to be uncritical thinkers, and are cultivating an unscholarly certainty about complex, sophisticated issues. These illiberal lessons are bleeding out into society and help explain the paradox of how, when more Americans are college educated than ever, national discourse seems to be at an all-time low.
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Unlearning Liberty not only recounts dozens of shocking examples of censorship on campus, including students and faculty members punished for things as harmless as publicly reading a book, protesting a parking garage on Facebook, and placing a pop culture quote on one’s office door, it also explains why the startling intolerance for dissent on campus harms us all. While some have accepted repressive political correctness as a relatively benign component of the college experience, it is having a toxic effect on students, the quality of higher education, and our society’s inclination and ability to talk through serious political and social issues.
Constitutional lawyer Greg Lukianoff walks readers through the life of a modern-day student, from high school to the last day of their first semester, to show how students are being systemically miseducated about what it means to live in a free society. Lukianoff demonstrates how campus censorship, courts, and bureaucracies, are teaching students by word and example to be uncritical thinkers, and are cultivating an unscholarly certainty about complex, sophisticated issues. These illiberal lessons are bleeding out into society and help explain the paradox of how, when more Americans are college educated than ever, national discourse seems to be at an all-time low.
Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate
In the 1980s and 90s universities across the country went to war with free speech and free thought by imposing politically correct speech codes. Despite public outcry against college censorship and unambiguous legal defeats for speech codes, thirty years later it is apparent that free speech lost and the negative consequences of this defeat pervade our society.
Unlearning Liberty not only recounts dozens of shocking examples of censorship on campus, including students and faculty members punished for things as harmless as publicly reading a book, protesting a parking garage on Facebook, and placing a pop culture quote on one’s office door, it also explains why the startling intolerance for dissent on campus harms us all. While some have accepted repressive political correctness as a relatively benign component of the college experience, it is having a toxic effect on students, the quality of higher education, and our society’s inclination and ability to talk through serious political and social issues.
Constitutional lawyer Greg Lukianoff walks readers through the life of a modern-day student, from high school to the last day of their first semester, to show how students are being systemically miseducated about what it means to live in a free society. Lukianoff demonstrates how campus censorship, courts, and bureaucracies, are teaching students by word and example to be uncritical thinkers, and are cultivating an unscholarly certainty about complex, sophisticated issues. These illiberal lessons are bleeding out into society and help explain the paradox of how, when more Americans are college educated than ever, national discourse seems to be at an all-time low.
Unlearning Liberty not only recounts dozens of shocking examples of censorship on campus, including students and faculty members punished for things as harmless as publicly reading a book, protesting a parking garage on Facebook, and placing a pop culture quote on one’s office door, it also explains why the startling intolerance for dissent on campus harms us all. While some have accepted repressive political correctness as a relatively benign component of the college experience, it is having a toxic effect on students, the quality of higher education, and our society’s inclination and ability to talk through serious political and social issues.
Constitutional lawyer Greg Lukianoff walks readers through the life of a modern-day student, from high school to the last day of their first semester, to show how students are being systemically miseducated about what it means to live in a free society. Lukianoff demonstrates how campus censorship, courts, and bureaucracies, are teaching students by word and example to be uncritical thinkers, and are cultivating an unscholarly certainty about complex, sophisticated issues. These illiberal lessons are bleeding out into society and help explain the paradox of how, when more Americans are college educated than ever, national discourse seems to be at an all-time low.
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| ISBN-13: | 9781594036491 |
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| Publisher: | Encounter Books |
| Publication date: | 10/23/2012 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 336 |
| File size: | 1 MB |
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