Eisgruber lauds University's free speech climate, pitches free speech to progressives in student event

May 03, 2023 1 min read

Courtesy of Princeton Tory

by Janny Eng, Daily Princetonian

President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 is “very proud” of University students’ commitment to free speech, he said at an event hosted on Saturday by the Princeton Progressive Law Society.

“I want to, among other things, urge progressives to embrace free speech as an ideal and as a practice and to take pride in the progressive heritage of that concept,” Eisgruber said during the presentation. “I don’t mean to say that free speech is only for progressives. I certainly don’t believe that. I regard free speech as a universal human right, as an American ideal.” 


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