What Snowflakes Get Right: Free Speech, Truth, and Equality on Campus

by Ulrich Baer

Book Overview

Angry debates about polarizing speakers have roiled college campuses. Conservatives accuse universities of muzzling unpopular opinions, betraying their values of open inquiry; students sympathetic to the left openly advocate against completely unregulated speech, asking for "safe spaces" and protection against visiting speakers and even curricula they feel disrespects them. Some even call these students "snowflakes"-too fragile to be exposed to opinions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190054190
• ISBN13: 9780190054199
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.3"