Post, Robert

Summary: "A leading American legal scholar offers a surprising account of the incompleteness of prevailing theories of freedom of speech. Robert C. Post shows that the familiar understanding of the First Amendment, which stresses the "marketplace of ideas" and which holds that "everyone is entitled to an opinion," is inadequate to create and preserve the expert knowledge that is necessary for a modern...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2012

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Palfrey, John G. (John Gorham)

Summary: "Safe spaces, trigger warnings, microagressions, the disinvitation of speakers, demands to rename campus landmarks -- debate over these issues began in lecture halls and on college quads but ended up on op-ed pages in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, on cable news, and on social media. Some of these critiques had merit, but others took a series of cheap shots at 'crybullies' who...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 370 PAL

Schrecker, Ellen.

Summary: Schrecker, the leading historian of the McCarthy-era witch hunts, examines both the key fronts in the present battles over higher ed, and their historical parallels in previous eras--offering a deeply-researched chronicle of the challenges to academic freedom, set against the rapidly changing structure of the academy itself.

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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 378.1213 SCH