opinion
MISTAKES WERE MADE
The furor over their answers about what constitutes harassment could have been avoided, but now free speech will be under even greater threat.
Jonathan Friedman is Director of Free Expression and Education at PEN America, where he has been the lead author of numerous reports on campus free speech. An interdisciplinary scholar by training, he holds an MA and Ph.D. in international education from New York University. He has taught courses at Columbia University, NYU, and Bard College.
The furor over their answers about what constitutes harassment could have been avoided, but now free speech will be under even greater threat.
A moral panic continues to drive laws and policies that are rapidly making it easier to censor books from schools and public libraries.
Republicans are cynically using “transparency” and the critical race theory panic to intimidate teachers.