A Chill In the Air: Free Speech and College Campuses
12 February 2021
Jude Schwalbach, Research Associate and Project Coordinator at The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Education Policy, discusses the importance of free speech to democracy, how we can return civil discourse to higher education, and the problem with "free speech zones" on college campuses.
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