Michael Barone: Women against free speech?
by Michael Barone
| March 21, 2018 05:11 PM
Sometimes, for those of us who are constantly reading statistics and poll results, something stands out that you didn’t expect to see — a number that makes you think the future will not be what you have been expecting.
My latest sighting of such a number was in a March 12 New York Times report of a poll of college students sponsored by the American Council on Education, the Charles Koch Foundation, and the Stanton Foundation. It asked students about free speech on campus, whether it is allowed and whether it should be.
College and university campuses have been transformed over the past half-century from the zone most tolerant of free speech to the zone least tolerant. Astonishingly, most colleges and universities have speech codes and maintain bureaucracies charged with restricting speech on campus. One-tenth limit this freedom to tiny and remote “free speech zones.â€
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