While media that focuses on me personally tends to make me profoundly uncomfortable, I was flattered and delighted to be asked to sit for an interview with the Wall Street Journal’s Emily Bobrow, and I’m very pleased with how it turned out. Here’s the profile that came of that interview, or you can find it in this Saturday’s print edition.
Here are two graphics which illustrate some of the statistics cited in the piece:
And, as the following shows, it’s worth noting that these issues are highly concentrated at elite schools:
SHOT FOR THE ROAD
Enjoy this hysterical ad that FIRE ran during the Oct. 14 USC-Notre Dame game. Shout out to Lou Perez!
Greg made a lot of good points in his profile but the problem is certain camps of speech have been suppressed and vilified in educational institutions for so long and this suppression on one side has been institutionalized by huge office of student conduct staff policies procedures as will as vast majority of the profs. So when for example the “other camp” asks questions about things like antisemitism , forcing vaxing of healthy young people etc even if speech is “allowed” there is a vicious aggression and doxing of those students or professors to the point of forced self censoring. Add that to corporate and media complicity how do we ever get out of this doom loop? Picture total “free speech” at Let’s say Harvard on Israel and Palestine how would it ever be an even playing field for reasonable discussion of differing views ???
That ad is so much more impactful than any po-faced speech about freedom of expression. Clever and accessible.