Speech at — and by — universities has been an issue of controversy in recent years. My colleague, Brian Soucek, has a book on the topic, The Opinionated University: Academic Freedom, Diversity, and the Myth of Neutrality in American Higher Education.
Here is the publisher’s teaser:
Why institutional neutrality is nothing but an illusion.
Can a university ever truly be neutral in today’s social and political climate? Pushing against the tide of universities increasingly pledging to stay neutral about contentious issues, law professor Brian Soucek argues that their promises are doomed to fail—universities can’t help being opinionated.
