Free Speech And The University

"When I was in law school, the most boring class was the one on the First Amendment. The answer to every question was to maximize free speech. Today, Herbert Marcuse’s notion of “repressive tolerance” — i.e., traditional free speech favors the existing power structures, and is thus repressive — has taken over the campuses. I recently asked social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, the founder of heterodoxacademy.org, which elite universities are committed to defending free speech. He could name only two: Princeton and the University of Chicago."