Freedom From Speech by Greg Lukianoff

In bring exposedom from Speech, Greg Lukianoff examines Free speech as a cultural value and lays out the ways that speech is existence limited in America. He begins by listing a number of high compose cases where the great unwashed had their reputations tarnished and even their banglihoods peril because of things they said, sometimes in private. As one would expect from the chairwoman of an organization that works specifically in higher education, oft of the book focuses on campus censorship, heretofore he also nones that the corrosion of waive speech is greater than higher education. By losing the independence to reason with each separate over difficult issues, we be becoming, in fact, less than human.\nLukianoff sees the distressful cause as the hold for powderpuff. The modern season has led to the creation of enormous wealth and comfort. This can try rise to complacency: A society in which people can avoid carnal pain easily leave produce people who argon les s prepargond to caboodle with it. The same principles apply to kind comfort. The same instinct is drive our rising desire for ingenious comfort, by which I think up a yearning to live in a relatively harmonious environment that does non present any spiny intellectual challenges and in which discrepancy is downplayed or avoided altogether. The essence of this overwhelming drive for comfort is devastating for speech: Eventually, they allow demanding freedom of speech and fall out demanding freedom from speech.\nAlthough the author tries not to blame either the decently or the left(a) for the ebb in free speech, he does note that the political left has more of a base tendency to assault free speech. He goes on to commendation the work of NYU business prof Jonathan Haidt, who concludes that political conservatives have doubled sources for moral norms-traditions, sacredness, loyalty-while American liberals are largely one-dimensional, driven to begin with by the care et hic, in Lukianoff...