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The Looming Crisis over Free Speech

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By Diana Hsieh from NoodleFood,cross-posted by MetaBlog

I heard Eric Daniels give three excellent lectures on freedom of speech this summer, so I'm quite certain that this CU Berkeley talk will be stellar:

The Looming Crisis over Free Speech

What: A lecture examining the escalating censorship in America and explaining what is needed to protect our freedom of speech

Who: Eric Daniels, research assistant professor at Clemson University's Institute for the Study of Capitalism

Where: 101 Morgan Hall, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720

When: Monday, October 6, 2008, 7 pm

Description: In this lecture, Dr. Daniels examines the state of free speech in America and finds that it is under serious threat. From campus speech codes to anti-discrimination and harassment law, from campaign finance to commercial speech, Americans today enjoy less and less freedom in communicating their ideas. Today's colleges and universities have become a hotbed of censorship, producing generations of Americans who have accepted suppression of speech as the norm. Daniels argues that the emerging crisis is a result of the lack of a proper understanding of individual rights, especially property rights. Only by understanding the proper basis of rights can we act to secure our freedom of speech and to protect the rights that give rise to it.

Bio: Dr. Eric Daniels is a research assistant professor at Clemson University's Institute for the Study of Capitalism. He has lectured internationally on American history, particularly on American intellectual history, business history and political history. He taught for five years at Duke University's Program on Values and Ethics in the Marketplace, where he was nominated for a university-wide teaching award. Dr. Daniels was a contributor to the recently published
Oxford Companion to United States
History, and wrote a chapter in
The Abolition of Antitrust
. He has appeared on C-SPAN and Voice of America Radio.

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  • 6 years later...

According to FIRE, a few colleges have started to reiterate the value of free-speech. These include a few well known ones, like Chicago, CMU, and (recently) Purdue. Here's a link to Chicago's statement. I hope this is a sign that the tide is turning and the absurdity of speech-codes in colleges will be a thing of the past for the next generation of students.

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