Last year the First Amendment was tested by protests on college campuses nationwide.

Now with another new school year approaching,

how ready are institutions for the free speech debates ahead?

College administrators by and large,

they're trying their best, but they're not equipped.

To me you combat speech you don't like with more speech, not censorship. A lot of this

stuff ought to scare the the Jesus side of every American.

One lawyer and one senator, with their takes on free speech and safety, on college

campuses and beyond.

I'm Nailaboodoo and from Axios, this is one big thing.

As we approach back to campus for colleges and universities around the country,

the last academic year looms large. College protests over Israel's treatment of Gaza,

dominated headlines and disrupted commence

while anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim incidents on campuses rose.

It brings that fundamentally American question to the four once again.

How far do our First Amendment protections of free speech really go?

It's fundamentally sometimes difficult for universities or governments to

fulfill their core constitutional obligation to protect free speech but also to keep people

safe.

That's Timothy Hapie, a law partner at Wilkie Fair and Gallagher,

and a lecturer at the School of Law at the University of Virginia.

Hapey, a Democrat, also led investigations

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