Recommended Reading
Speak Freely: Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech
by Keith Whittington
Princeton University Press, 2018.
Hate: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship
by Nadine Strossen
Oxford University Press, 2018.
Democracy, Expertise, & Academic Freedom: A First Amendment Jurisprudence for the Modern State
by Robert C. Post
Yale University Press, 2013.
Restoring Free Speech and Liberty on Campus
by Donald Downs
Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate
by Greg Lukianoff
Encounter Books, 2014.
The Soul of the First Amendment
by Floyd Abrams
Yale University Press, 2017.
Free Speech on Campus
by Erwin Chemerinsky & Howard Gillman
Yale University Press, 2017.
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Penguin Books, 2018.
Free Speech and Liberal Education: A Plea for Intellectual Diversity and Tolerance
by Donald Alexander Downs
Cato Institute, 2020.
Understanding Academic Freedom
by Henry Reichman
John Hopkins University Press
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