Restricting free speech on campus goes mainstream.
“Does academic freedom exist for white supremacist professors?” That’s how this book begins its argument for the thoroughgoing transformation of the American academy in favor of critical race theory. In It’s Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom, Penn State literature professor Michael Bérubé and Portland State film professor Jennifer Ruth apologize for their long-held commitment to liberal values. “To many younger scholars as well as scholars of color,” the authors lament, “ideals like academic freedom look like hazy, high-minded beliefs cherished by old white people oblivious to the ways in which right-wing provocateurs…have managed to weaponize the freedoms they enjoy.”
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Ilya Shapiro is a senior fellow and director of Constitutional Studies at the Manhattan Institute. Follow him on Twitter here.
This piece originally appeared in Claremont Review of Books
