Are colleges suppressing free speech?
Listen 00:49:44Guests: Samantha Harris, Jason Stanley
Guest host Mary Cummings-Jordan will talk to a panel about the on-going debate about free speech on college campuses, following a protest at Middlebury College in which students prevented conservative Charles Murray from speaking at a public event hosted by a Middlebury professor. We’ll be joined by SAMANTHA HARRIS, vice president of policy research at Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, and by JASON STANLEY, professor of philosophy at Yale University.
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