Campus Misinformation: The Real Threat to Free Speech in American Higher Education Vivian Bradford
Campus Misinformation: The Real Threat to Free Speech in American Higher Education Vivian Bradford An incisive examination of how pundits and politicians manufactured the campus free speech…
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Campus Misinformation: The Real Threat to Free Speech in American Higher Education Vivian Bradford
An incisive examination of how pundits and politicians manufactured the campus free speech crisis--and created a genuine challenge to academic freedom in the process.If we listen to the politicians and pundits, college campuses have become fiercely ideological spaces where students unthinkingly endorse a liberal orthodoxy and forcibly silence anyone who dares to disagree. But what is really happening on college campuses?Campus Misinformation shows how misinformation about colleges and universities has proliferated in recent years, with potentially dangerous results. These commentators lament the demise of free speech and academic freedom.
Popular but highly misleading claims about a so-called free speech crisis and a lack of intellectual diversity on college campuses emerged in the mid-2010s and continue to shape public discourse about higher