In general, i think, in general, the idea, no, they shouldn't step in. We should be extremely limited when we say that authorities can step in and change things. College used to be a lot of fun when i went an now it's constant conflicts. I wouldn't call them restrictions on free speech. But if one's going to use the phrase that way, there are numerous restrictions on freespeech within companies. At the work place, if you went to the water cooler and said, a number of offensive things, you would be asked to stop and eventually fired.
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt joins Tyler Cowen for a conversation on morality, politics, disgust, how to maintain free speech on campus, the enriching effects of LSD, antiparsimonialism, and why economists set all the interesting variables to zero.
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