Unlearning Liberty Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate

Summary: 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 s.

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ISBN: 9781594036491 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1594036497 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (305 p.)
Publisher: New York : Encounter Books, 2012.

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INTRODUCTION: The Dangerous Collage; Campus Censorship: Alive and Thriving; How Campus Censorship Harms Us All; Beginning Our Journey through the Modern College Experience; CHAPTER 1: Learning All the Wrong Lessons in High School; High Schools and Unlearning Liberty; "Seriously, Why Is Free Speech Important Again?"; The Legal Landscape; Beyond the Law: The Grand Philosophy behind Free Speech; Polarization, and the Special Importance of Free Speech in the Internet Age; J. S. Mill and a Warning to Colleges; How the Road to Censorship Is Always Paved with Good Intentions