“Encouraging Donald Trump to enforce free speech on campus is like giving a serial killer a pile of weapons and hoping he’ll only murder bad people. Creating more free speech on campus is a goal I completely agree with. But increased federal control of colleges cannot effectively compel free speech to exist, and it poses the far greater danger of giving a regime with authoritarian desires a green light to impose its repressive will on higher education.” Read the full commentary at Academe Blog.
PERSPECTIVES: John K. Wilson, “The Danger of Deference to Trump”
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