Speak Freely: Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech

Speak Freely: Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech (Princeton University Press) grapples with timely issues including trigger warnings, safe spaces, and speaker disinvitations and warns of the dangers associated with limiting speech via campus censors. Keith E. Whittington argues that free speech is essential to universities’ missions and that it is vital for teaching tolerance, ideological diversity, and freedom of thought.