Freedom of Speech under Assault on Campus

Freedom of speech has been severely criticized at many American universities. Meanwhile, such prestigious transnational institutions as the United Nations and the European Union have endorsed censorship of hate speech, as well as denial of Holocaust and climate change, and even blasphemy. Those trends are antithetical to classically liberal ideals about both the freedom of speech and the purpose of the university.  In a new study, professor of philosophy Daniel Jacobson argues that the very trends on campus that threaten freedom of speech also lend strong support to classically liberal justifications for it.

• “Freedom of Speech under Assault on Campus,” by Daniel Jacobson