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‘The Imperiled Freedom the Candidates Ignored’
In RealClearPolitics, Peter Berkowitz, Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, makes the case that "liberty of thought and discussion" is a critical issue that the presidential candidates ignored during this year's election.
Among his recommendations in this interesting article: "Anyone who doubts the weakening of these principles of freedom in the American mind or the threat that this poses to constitutional self-government in the United States should read attorney Greg Lukianoff's superb book, ‘Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate.'"
Head to RealClearPolitics to see more of Berkowitz's take on Unlearning Liberty!
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