The Stop Woke Act would ban public colleges in Florida from teaching about identity politics. "I teach these weeks on free speech and on cultural appropriation," he says. The legislation is an intellectual dead end, the professor adds.
Amna Khalid and Jeff Snyder are writers and professors of history at Carleton College.
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk, Amna Khalid and Jeff Snyder discuss the predominance of certain progressive orthodoxies on college campuses; why opponents of left wing censoriousness should also resist illiberalism in education from the right; and how we can stand up for philosophically liberal, humanistic values without becoming bitter, reactionary, or uncivil.