opinion
Norms and Laws
Setting up a public space for speech and then expunging it of views he finds uncomfortable is more than obnoxious — it’s illegal.
Philip N. Cohen is a professor of sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of The Family: Diversity, Inequality, and Social Change (Norton, 2014), and writes the Family Inequality blog. In addition to academic work, his writing has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Atlantic, Time, and other publications. He is @familyunequal on Twitter.