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M Makous's avatar

These relative rankings are helpful, but have they been validated against some kind of absolute measure? Maybe by deep interviews with a subset of survey responders. One could hypothesize that the best schools are still lacking a bona fide open free speech atmosphere; they're just not as terrible at those down the list.

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Dale Conder's avatar

It’s “just deserts” not “desserts” because it is what one deserves.

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Huxbnw's avatar

While so much ink is spelled on the worst performing of the Ivies (Columbia and Harvard), would be great to see how and why other Ivies did much better this year.

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Stosh Wychulus's avatar

What is truly disturbing is the majority of all persuasions who are in favor of shouting down speakers so other students are prevented from hearing them.

Is there a measure for schools who seek to prevent this or where there are consequences? There is no freedom of speech if that is tolerated.

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Ura Rodny's avatar

The problem with Greg Lukianoff absolutist free speech crusade is that he began advocatating freedom of teaching at colleges offensive nonsense like Creationism, Aryan or Socialist or Palestinian sciense and all that. It was clear during his recent interview with Larry Summers. Yes, you, me, Lukianoff or Harvard can teach any garbage, but the citizens are free to deny their money to any individual or corporation merely pretending to be real university. University as well as K12 schools do not have freedom of nonsensical teaching and suppression of real science.

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