No longer truly 'elite': Top colleges fail on free speech AND basic tolerance

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No longer truly 'elite': Top colleges fail on free speech AND basic tolerance
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If college students are seen sporting riot gear on campus this fall, no one should blame them.

Pro-Palestinian students perform a sit-in to protest against Hilary Clinton who is teaching at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs in New York City, U.S on September 4, 2024.

In our survey, 55% of students said they find it difficult to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on campus — a record high forAnd while the vast majority of pro-Palestinian protesters’ speech is unequivocally protected by the First Amendment, it’s worth noting that pro-Palestinian protesters are responsible forOur study also exposes administrators’ long-running casual disregard for nurturing free expression or inculcating those values into the student body.

At least half of students surveyed oppose allowing speakers who expressed controversial views on Israeli security, abortion, the police or the Catholic church. The failure of our institutions to serve as centers for rigorous debate, open discussion and thought experimentation — and the way these trends undermine our universities’ credibility as truth-seeking institutions — should trouble us all.

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