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Book SynopsisExamining such hot-button issues as trigger warnings, safe spaces, hate speech, disruptive protests, speaker disinvitations, the use of social media by faculty, and academic politics, "Speak Freely" describes the dangers of empowering campus censors to limit speech and enforce orthodoxy.
Trade Review“[A] sophisticated and coolheaded defense of free speech.”
—Peter Berkowitz, Real Clear Politics “Involve[s] readers in the pleasures of confronting a difficult problem, treating the dangerous views of determined adversaries with an open mind and proceeding with greater confidence as a result.”
—Jonathan Marks, Wall Street Journal“Cogent and compelling. . . .
Speak Freely supplies clarity and good sense to a subject that has been receiving a lot more heat than light.”
—Glenn C. Altschuler, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette“The best of the recent books on free speech and higher education.”
—James Stoner, Law and Liberty“A timely defense of intellectual debate and critical thinking. . . . In the current divisive political climate, Whittington shows why safeguarding the civil exchange of diverse ideas is an urgent need.”
—Kirkus Reviews
