opinion
THIS IS CIVILIZATION
The shocking attack on the celebrated author, who has lived under a death sentence for decades, reminds us that free speech isn’t violence—it’s our only hope to avoid it.
Greg Lukianoff is the President and CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), co-author of the New York Times bestseller The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting Up a Generation for Failure, and author of Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate.
The shocking attack on the celebrated author, who has lived under a death sentence for decades, reminds us that free speech isn’t violence—it’s our only hope to avoid it.
The phrase has been overused and abused, but it describes an undeniably real problem that’s getting worse.