Unsafe Space
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Unsafe Space

The Crisis of Free Speech on Campus

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eBook - PDF

Unsafe Space

The Crisis of Free Speech on Campus

About this book

The academy is in crisis. Students call for speakers to be banned, books to be slapped with trigger warnings and university to be a Safe Space, free of offensive words or upsetting ideas. But as tempting as it is to write off intolerant students as a generational blip, or a science experiment gone wrong, they've been getting their ideas from somewhere. Bringing together leading journalists, academics and agitators from the US and UK, Unsafe Space is a wake-up call. From the war on lad culture to the clampdown on climate sceptics, we need to resist all attempts to curtail free speech on campus. But society also needs to take a long, hard look at itself. Our inability to stick up for our founding, liberal values, to insist that the free exchange of ideas should always be a risky business, has eroded free speech from within.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Notes on Contributors
  7. Introduction: Reinvigorating the Spirit of ’64
  8. 1 From No Platform to Safe Space: A Crisis of Enlightenment
  9. 2 The ‘New’ Feminism and the Fear of Free Speech
  10. 3 Re-Educating Men: The War on Lads and Frats
  11. 4 Teaching Students to Censor: How Academics Betrayed Free Speech
  12. 5 Trigger Warnings: A Gun tothe Head of Academia
  13. 6 BDS: Demonising Israel, Destroying Free Speech
  14. 7 Debating Abortion on Campus: Let Both the Pro and Anti Sides Speak
  15. 8 A Climate of Censorship: Eco-Orthodoxy on Campus
  16. 9 Terrorism and Free Speech: An Unholy Alliance of State and Students
  17. 10 Academic Freedom: The Threat from Within
  18. Conclusion: How to Make Your University an Unsafe Space
  19. Index