Tales from the Free Speech Foxhole
Episode description
David French graciously guest-hosts in Jonah’s place on today’s program, wherein he has a long-ranging conversation with a longtime friend , Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. David and Greg discuss some of the silliest and most sinister examples of censorship regimes on college campuses from recent history, the history of the campus free speech movement stretching back to the 1950s, David’s memories of being a conservative at Harvard Law School, and the moment that Greg realized that “the students themselves had become the main proponents of censorship.” By coincidence, it’s our second Remnant in a row that is largely about modern cancel culture and censorship, rounded out by a conversation about the Snyder Cut. The only difference, really, is that David and Greg seriously dig it.
Show Notes:
- The Coddling of the American Mind, by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
- Herbert Marcuse and campus free speech
- Greg: “Speech Codes: The Biggest Scandal on College Campuses Today”
- “Inappropriately directed laughter”
- Greg’s first book, Unlearning Liberty
- Indian River Community College bans The Passion of the Christ
- The Ronald Zaccari Memorial Parking Garage
- Greg debates Ken White on cancel culture
- Greg talks about social justice graduate requirements in the Chronicle of Higher Education
- Alexi McCammond fired from Teen Vogue over old tweets
- Jonathan Rauch on how to tell if you’re being canceled
- The Revolt of the Public, by Martin Gurri
- Amazon pulls Ryan T. Anderson’s book on transgender issues
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