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IDENTIFYING A WISE UNIVERSITY
Five questions alumni, parents, college counselors, and prospective students should ask universities:
1. What steps do you take (if any) to teach incoming students about academic freedom and free inquiry before they take their first classes?
2. How would you handle a demand that a professor be fired because of an opinion he or she expressed in the article or interview, which other people found deeply offensive?
3. What would your institution do if a controversial
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Something is going badly wrong for American teenagers, as we can see in the statistics on depression, anxiety, and suicide. Something is going very wrong on many college campuses, as we can see in the growth of call-out culture, in the rise in efforts to disinvite or shout down visiting speakers, and in changing norms about speech, including a recent tendency to evaluate speech in terms of safety and danger. This new culture of safetyism and vindictive protectiveness is bad for students and bad
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― The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure
― The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure
