Description
Book SynopsisThe demand for free speech on campus is a distraction, we need to follow the money
Trade Review‘This deeply researched and urgent book reads like a detective mystery. A riveting self-defence manual for all who fear for the future of our country and our planet'
-- Nancy MacLean, author of ‘Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America’
‘Universities regularly conduct important discussions of free speech. And then there is the largely imaginary ‘campus free speech crisis’. This book is a detailed and valuable guide to the shadowy right-wing financial networks irresponsibly stoking the latter to the growing detriment of the former’
-- Hank Reichman, Professor Emeritus of History, California State University, East Bay
‘An essential analysis of the amped-up culture wars over free speech’
-- ‘Times Higher Education’
‘An insightful dive into the ways higher education has been impacted—indeed, manipulated—by conservatives. Read it and fight back’
-- Eleanor J. Bader, ‘The Progressive’
'Deeply researched and well-argued'
-- ‘Inside Higher Education’
Table of ContentsPreface
Introduction: Overview of the Koch’s Campus Free Speech Machine
1. The Donor Strategy
2. The Student Groups
3. The Provocateurs
4. The Media Amplifiers
5. The Lawyers
6. Changing the Laws
7. The Academics
8. The Free Speech International
Conclusion: Refusing the Plutocratic Free Speech Narrative
Appendix 1: Koch Network Payments to Organizations Mentioned in the Text
Appendix 2: Resources for Activists
Notes
Index
