Tom Ginsburg and John Wilson on Institutional Neutrality

Tom Ginsburg and John Wilson
Free the Inquiry, Heterodox Academy 

Does a university protect free speech by staying neutral, or silence it? In this Heterodox Conversation at Indiana University–Bloomington, Tom Ginsburg of the University of Chicago and John Wilson, co-editor of the American Association of University Professors’ Academe Blog, take up the question.

The two agree on more than you might expect: neutrality is there to hold back administrators, not to silence faculty or students. They split on whether it should reach academic departments, on whether professors should hold back outside their expertise, and on how to read the pressure on universities now.

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