Speech Freedom on Campus: Past, Present, and Future

Joseph Russomanno

doi:10.5771/9781793623614

Summary

Traditionally, the university or college is thought to be the ultimate location for the discovery and sharing of knowledge. After all, on these campuses are some of the great minds across all fields, as well as students who are not only eager to learn, but who often contribute to our shared wisdom. For those ideals to be achieved, however, ideas require access to some kind of virtual marketplace from which people can sample and consider them, discuss and debate them. Restricting the expression of those ideas for whatever reason is the enemy of not only this process, but also of knowledge discovery. Speech freedom on our college and university campuses, like everywhere else, is fragile. There are those who wish to suppress it, more often than not when the words express ideas, opinions, and even facts that conflict with their beliefs. Why is this effort, so completely at odds with the foundational values of this country, made? This topic explored in Speech Freedom on Campus: Past, Present and Future is multi-layered, and its analysis is best accomplished through multiple perspectives. Joseph Russomanno’s edited collection does precisely that, utilizing 10 different scholars to examine various aspects and issues related to speech freedom on campus.

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Edition: 1/2020
Copyright year: 2020
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-2360-7
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-2361-4
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 296
Product type: Edited Book

1. Dedication page No access
2. Contents No access
3. Foreword No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 4
Chapter 1 Free Speech on Campus No access Pages 5 - 20
Chapter 2 The Holmesian Experiment and the Democratization of Truth in the Academy No access Pages 21 - 46
Chapter 3 Teaching and Preaching Free Speech No access Pages 47 - 72
Chapter 4 Conservatism and Free Speech in Higher Education No access Pages 73 - 102
Chapter 5 Doing the Work No access Pages 103 - 134
Chapter 6 A Confluence on Campus No access Pages 135 - 160
Chapter 7 Beyond Free Speech Rhetoric No access Pages 161 - 188
Chapter 8 The Awful Ruling of Garcetti v. Ceballos and Its Application at the University Level No access Pages 189 - 198
Chapter 9 Free Speech Values in the Classroom No access Pages 199 - 216
Chapter 10 Managing the Peculiar Marketplace in the Face of Extremism No access Pages 217 - 244
Bibliography No access Pages 245 - 280
Index No access Pages 281 - 290
About the Contributors No access Pages 291 - 296