89 - Keith Whittington - Fighting for Faculty Freedom
Two for Tea Podcast
English - May 16, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 88.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsNews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Academic Freedom Alliance:
https://academicfreedom.org/
You can find Keith’s book Speak Freely: Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech (2018) here:
https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691191522/speak-freely
You can find all of Keith’s academic publications here:
https://scholar.princeton.edu/kewhitt/home
Keith regularly blogs here:
https://reason.com/volokh/
Follow Keith on Twitter: @kewhittington
Further References
My interview with Greg Lukianoff:
https://soundcloud.com/twoforteapodcast/78-greg-lukianoff-defending-free-speech
Experienced. Nonpartisan. Defending Your Rights. - FIRE:
https://www.thefire.org/
Heterodox Academy:
https://heterodoxacademy.org/
Timestamps
2:24 The ACA’s specific mission; free speech norms at universities
17:55 The defence of free speech for academics is controversial among academics
20:23 Free speech is not a partisan issue
35:16 How susceptible are people to absorbing ideas they hear or read about?
42:25 Misconceptions about the situation on campuses, day to day
48:44 The case of Tom Smith
55:27 The distinction between academic freedom and freedom of speech
01:03:23 What you can do to help