29 October, 2016

My Halloween email led to a campus firestorm — and a troubling lesson about self-censorship - The Washington Post

My Halloween email led to a campus firestorm — and a troubling lesson about self-censorship - The Washington Post: "It takes more than Yale’s admirable free speech code to ensure a healthy habitat for learning. My fear is that students will eventually give up trying to engage with each other, a development that will echo in our wider culture for decades. My critics have reminded me that there are consequences to my exercise of free speech. Now it’s Yale’s turn to examine the consequences of its own stance: the shadow on its magnificent motto, “Light and truth.”

"



'via Blog this'