The Battle Over Free Speech on Campus

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🗓️ 16 May 2024

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Over the past few weeks, protests on college campuses over the war in Gaza have sparked debate about the extent and limits of student and faculty free speech rights. In this episode, two leading First Amendment scholars, Keith Whittington of Princeton University and Geoffrey Stone of the University of Chicago, join Jeffrey Rosen to discuss the current debates over free speech on campus. They also discuss Whittington’s new book, You Can’t Teach That!: The Battle Over University Classrooms. Resources: Keith Whittington, You Can’t Teach That!: The Battle Over University Classrooms (2024) Keith Whittington, Speak Freely: Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech (2019) Keith Whittington, “Civil Disobedience Has Consequences,” The Daily Princetonian (May 10, 2024) Keith Whittington, “What Can Professors Say in Public? Extramural Speech and the First Amendment,” Case Western L. Rev (2023) University of Chicago, Kalven Committee: Report on the University’s Role in Political and Social Action University of Chicago, “Report on the Committee on Freedom of Expression” (2014) “UChicago Says Free Speech Is Sacred. Some Students See Hypocrisy,” NYTimes (May 2024) Questions or comments about the show? Email us at [email protected].  Continue today’s conversation on Facebook and Twitter using @ConstitutionCtr.  Sign up to receive Constitution Weekly, our email roundup of constitutional news and debate, at bit.ly/constitutionweekly.  You can find transcripts for each episode on the podcast pages in our Media Library.

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0:00.0	Hello friends. I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution
0:07.2	Center and welcome to We The People, a weekly show of constitutional debate.
0:11.2	The National Constitution centers a nonpartisan
0:13.9	nonprofit chartered by Congress to increase awareness and understanding of the
0:18.0	Constitution among the American people. Over the past few weeks protests on college campuses about the war in Gaza have sparked a debate about the scope and limits of free speech rights on campus.
0:30.0	In this episode of We The People, I'm honored to be joined by two of America's leading free speech scholars,
0:35.2	Keith Whittington of Princeton University and Jeffrey Stone of the University of Chicago,
0:39.9	to discuss the campus protests and the First Amendment.
0:43.5	Keith Whittington is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics
0:47.6	in the Department of Politics at Princeton University.
0:50.1	He's currently the chair of the Academic Committee of the Academic Freedom Alliance and a Hoover Institution visiting fellow.
0:56.0	Keith's new book, you can't teach that, the Battle over University Classrooms, will be available on May 20th.
1:02.0	Keith, it is great to welcome you back. classrooms will be available on May 20th.
1:02.8	Keith, it is great to welcome you back to We The People.
1:06.4	Thanks for having me.
1:07.8	And Jeffrey Stone is the Edward H. Levy Distinguished Service
1:10.9	professor at the University of Chicago.
1:12.9	He previously served as dean of the law school and provost of the university.
1:16.8	He's the author and editor of many books about the First Amendment and the Constitution,
1:20.5	including national security, leaks and Freedom of the Press,
1:23.5	the Free Speech Century, and Paralist Times, Free Speech in War Time.
1:28.0	He chaired the Committee on Free Expression at the University of Chicago.
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