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For over a era, shocking conditions of censorship at America's universites and colleges have educated students the wrong lessons about surviving in a free contemporary society. Drawing on a decade of experience battling for independence of talk on campus, First Amendment lawyer Greg Lukianoff discloses how higher education fails to show students to be critical thinkers: by stifling wide open controversy, our campuses are supercharging ideological divisions, promoting groupthink, and pushing an unscholarly certainty about complex issues. Lukianoff walks readers through the life span of an modern-day college scholar, from orientation to the end of freshman yr. Through this zoom lens, he explains startling violations of free talk rights: a student in Indiana punished for publicly reading a publication, a student in Georgia expelled for a pro-environment collage he published on Facebook, students at Yale forbidden from adding an F. Scott Fitzgerald price on a T shirt, and students in the united states corralled into very small "free speech areas" when they wanted to express their views. But Lukianoff runs further, demonstrating how this culture of censorship is blood loss into the much larger contemporary society. As he explores open public controversies including Juan Williams, Rush Limbaugh, Charge Maher, Richard Dawkins, Larry Summers - even Dave Barry and Jon Stewart - Lukianoff paints a stark picture in our potential as a land to go over important issues rationally. Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Argument illuminates how intolerance for dissent and controversy on today's campus threatens the independence of every citizen and makes us all just a little bit dumber.
