The Politics of First Personal Belief

Sally Kohn: I was intrigued reading the piece by quotation you include from a paper that you co-wrote. You argue that effective teaching and research requires that communicative privileges be given to some and not others based on people's disciplinary competence. Do you think there's been an erosion of that concept across the political spectrum in the last few years? And if it does exist across the board, how does that differ between the right wing and the left wing? How do they express it differently? Sally Kohn: There are certain deep commonalities between what we might call right wing free speech warriors and students who are ostensibly on the left attacking the exercise of speech rights.