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‘Academic Freedom?’

Graduating students gather for commencement ceremonies at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Mass., May 22, 2023. (Brian Snyder/Reuters)

On episode 68 of The Charles C. W. Cooke Podcast, I talked to Keith Whittington, a professor at Yale Law School, about his new book, You Can’t Teach That: The Battle over University Classrooms. Among the topics discussed are why universities are different than K-12 schools; why governments (and taxpayers) can’t decide what is taught, given that they’re paying the bill; how Civil Rights law intersects with academic free speech; and how to prevent universities from becoming ideological bubbles.

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