February 5, 2017
In the pipeline: Campus free speech legislation
By Monica Showalter
University of California, Berkeley's rioters have done their worst to chill free speech in their violence on campus earlier this week. They may have achieved the opposite of what they aimed for, however. A new proposal for free speech legislation is out now and likely to gain momentum.
The proposal, put out by Stanley Kurtz and two other scholars at the Goldwater Institute, seeks a federal law to guarantee free speech at public universities. The proposed law covers all the bases of possibility to ensure that the politically correct crowd can't twist such legislation to their own ends. It also provides for sanctions with teeth if they do. It does so within a recognizable constitutional framework to protect to every point of view in the name preserving the free flow of ideas. According to the Goldwater Institute:
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