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JAMES KIRCHICK: 'ABOLISH SPEECH CODES ENTIRELY'


HOW IDENTITY POLITICS AND INSTITUTIONAL COWARDICE HAVE UNDERMINED THE FREE
SPEECH ON WHICH OUR SOCIETY RELIES.

Nick Gillespie | 1.17.2024 4:22 PM

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JAMES KIRCHICK: 'ABOLISH SPEECH CODES ENTIRELY'



"If the problem with campus speech codes is the selectivity with which
universities penalize various forms of bigotry," wrote James Kirchick recently
in The New York Times, "the solution is not to expand the university's power to
punish expression. It's to abolish speech codes entirely."

Kirchick was writing about widespread outrage at the deeply nuanced and deeply
hypocritical defense of speech offered by the presidents of Harvard, MIT, and
the University of Pennsylvania at a congressional hearing about antisemitic and
anti-Zionist campus reactions to the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel.

Although Kirchick, the author of Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay
Washington and The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark
Age, is an ardent defender of Israel, he is also a self-described free-speech
absolutist who is disgusted by calls to restrict expression, whether on or
off-campus. He says that instead of clamping down on speech, we should be
arguing more openly and publicly, even when it's deeply uncomfortable, as it was
when he raised novelist Alice Walker's antisemitic views during a literary
conference at which they were both speaking.

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