Unlearning liberty
by Greg Lukianoff · first published 2012
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Overview: For over a generation, shocking cases of censorship at America's colleges and universities have taught students the wrong lessons about living in a free society. Drawing on a decade of experience battling for freedom of speech on campus, First Amendment lawyer Greg Lukianoff reveals how higher education fails to teach students to become critical thinkers: by stifling open debate, our campuses are supercharging ideological divisions, promoting groupthink, and encouraging an unscholarly certainty about complex issues. Lukianoff walks readers through the life of a modern-day college stu
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Don't forget to read Greg Lukanioff's Unlearning Liberty[1], a very detailed examination of basically the same forces at work in education and free speech. I read it not long after reading Anne Applebaum's Iron Curtain[2], and was really disturbed by the parallels…
on “Massachusetts SWAT teams claim they’re private corporations” ↗Having FIRE's[1] RSS feed[2] in my daily reading has dissuaded me from that belief. "Unlearning Liberty" by Greg Lukianoff (FIRE's President) has a chapter of Yale. 1) http://thefire.org 2) http://thefire.org/feeds/news/
on “The Great Firewall of Yale” ↗