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Greg Lukianoff on Free Speech from 'New Threats to Freedom'
Greg Lukianoff discusses his essay on campus censorship from the book New Threats to Freedom. Are there circumstances under which a person's right to not be offended supersedes a person's right to free speech? Based on the actions of several public universities, it seems that this may be a dangerously common attitude within academia.
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