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My University Protects Free Speech. Yours Doesn’t.
From the archives!
I teach at the University of Chicago. Admit it, you’re jealous.
Not because the campus is beautiful (it is!) or because it is crawling with Nobel prize winners (ditto, although the economists do keep somewhat to themselves in their beautiful newly renovated building). Not because we ranked number three—along with Yale!—in the U.S. News and World Report for 2018, or because we are still the place where fun comes to die, which should give us points against Yale.
You’re jealous because we have the best university president in the country, who says things like this: It is the obligation of all of us who aspire to true excellence in education and research to forcefully and unequivocally defend an environment of free expression on campuses.And this: To stifle free expression and open discourse and suppress speech that you don’t like is just an invitation for others to do the same. And this: Those who argue for avoiding discomfort, while seemingly seeking to aid students, are…
I teach at the University of Chicago. Admit it, you’re jealous.
Not because the campus is beautiful (it is!) or because it is crawling with Nobel prize winners (ditto, although the economists do keep somewhat to themselves in their beautiful newly renovated building). Not because we ranked number three—along with Yale!—in the U.S. News and World Report for 2018, or because we are still the place where fun comes to die, which should give us points against Yale.
You’re jealous because we have the best university president in the country, who says things like this: It is the obligation of all of us who aspire to true excellence in education and research to forcefully and unequivocally defend an environment of free expression on campuses.And this: To stifle free expression and open discourse and suppress speech that you don’t like is just an invitation for others to do the same. And this: Those who argue for avoiding discomfort, while seemingly seeking to aid students, are…
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