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The Coddling Of The American Mind

If Books Could Kill

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Is This a Campus Culture Debate?

A political scientist tracked instances of professors in the US being fired due to political speech from 2015 through 2017. Jeffrey Sacks found that more professors were fired for liberal speech than conservative speech by a factor of about three to one. The New York Times dedicated seven times as much space to stories about the suppression of conservative speech when compared to storiesabout the suppression of liberal speech.

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