Unlearning Liberty : Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lukianoff, Greg.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Academic freedom--United States.

College students--Civil rights--United States.

Education, Higher--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.

Freedom of speech--United States.

Teaching, Freedom of--United States.

Universities and colleges--Law and legislation--United States.

Academic freedom--Civil rights--United States.

Academic freedom.

Teaching, Freedom of--Law and legislation--United States.

Teaching, Freedom of.

Freedom of expression--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.

Freedom of expression.

College students--United States.

College students.

Universities and colleges--United States.

Universities and colleges.

Education, Higher--United States.

Education, Higher.

Local Subjects:

Academic freedom--United States.

College students--Civil rights--United States.

Education, Higher--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.

Freedom of speech--United States.

Teaching, Freedom of--United States.

Universities and colleges--Law and legislation--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (543 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Unlearning Liberty

Place of Publication:

New York : Encounter Books, 2014.

Language Note:

English

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

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; 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 IntentionsThe Acceptance of Censorship by College Students; A Personal Aside: How Multiculturalism Demands Free Speech; What High School Students (and Parents) Need to Know before They Go to College; Chapter 2: Opening the College Brochure; PC Went to War with Free Speech in the 1990s, and Free Speech Lost; Hidden Speech Codes, Everywhere; What Harassment Is Supposed to Mean; A Short Selection of Examples of Abuses of Harassment Codes on Campus; The Department of Education Muddies the Waters

The Harm of Campus Speech Codes That Are "Just on the Books"The "Silent Classroom"; Speech Codes, Juan Williams, and the Danger of Honest Talk; Chapter 3: The College Road Trip; Quarantining Free Speech; Four Factors That Work against Campus Free Speech; The Price of Bureaucracy and Hyperregulation; An Opportunity for Free Speech on Campus?; Chapter 4: Harvard and Yale; All Is Not Well at Harvard and Yale; Yale's About-Face on Free Speech; Fraternities at Yale Make Matters Worse for Free Speech; Harvard's Surprising Cluelessness about Free Speech and Free Minds

Pledging Yourself to Oversimplifying Moral Philosophy at HarvardLarry Summers, and How Playing with Ideas Teaches Us to Talk Like Grownups; Chapter 5: Welcome to Campus!; Disorientation; Residence Life: From Hall Monitors to Morality Police; The University of Delaware "Treatment"; "Us versus Them": The Culture War as Hero Narrative; Chapter 6: Now You've Done It! The Campus Judiciary; The Student Judiciary and the Criminalization of Everything; Violations of Due Process and Free Speech Often Go Hand in Hand; Michigan State University's Surreal Inquisition Program

Campus Justice and Sexual AssaultStep One of Doing Away with Due Process in Sex Cases: Redefine Normal Human Interaction as an Offense; Step Two: Lower Due Process Protections (or, How the Federal Government Isn't Helping); What's at Stake: A Due Process Cautionary Tale out of Ohio; Campus Justice and Unlearning the "Spirit of Liberty"; Chapter 7: Don't Question Authority; Oh Yeah, We Actually Meant DON'T Question Authority; Campus Authoritarianism versus Sci-Fi Fans; Facebook and the Risks of Online Dissent; War at Peace College and the Spamification of Dissent

Swear at Your Own Risk (a.k.a. Skip This Section If You Can't Abide Cussing)

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ISBN:

9781594037337

1594037337

OCLC:

881414810