Education Law,
Constitutional Law
Aug. 23, 2019
The marketplace of ideas
Are colleges places of robust, open debate or suffocating cloisters where only approved ideas can be expressed?
Stephen F. Rohde
Email: rohdevictr@aol.com
Stephen is a retired civil liberties lawyer and contributor to the Los Angeles Review of Books, is author of American Words for Freedom and Freedom of Assembly.
We are living in a deeply hypocritical time when far too many people say one thing and do the opposite. Our finest colleges and universities pride themselves on being centers of learning dedicated to academic freedom and the unfettered exchange of controversial and unorthodox ideas; that is until those lofty ideals are tested in the rough and tumble of real life and then these easy platitudes give way to intolerance and censorship.
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