Commentary: Deceitful Statistics Prop up the Princeton Free Speech Panic

January 18, 2023 1 min read

Commentary: Deceitful Statistics Prop up the Princeton Free Speech Panic

by Eleanor Clemans-Cope, The Daily Princetonian

George F. Will GS ’68 recently took to the pages of the Washington Post, where he is a regular columnist, to announce to the world that wokeness at Princeton is destroying free speech. Liberal censorship on college campuses has become an obsession on the political right, a pillar of their case that conservatives are under attack. It’s absurd — and reminiscent of the Red Scare — to declare a national slide into progressive tyranny due to “wokeness” at elite universities. But beyond that, the foundational argument that Princeton is “too woke” and therefore intolerant is a lie.

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