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“Everyone is in favour of free speech,” Winston Churchill once wryly observed. “Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people’s idea of it is that they a free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.”
Five years of the ‘Chicago Statement’: What have we learned? Part 2
Editor’s Note: for colleges and universities across the nation to adopt the statement themselves in order to express their commitment to freedom of expression.
In our first installment of this series, we journeyed back to 2014 to explore the beginnings of the Chicago Statement and discuss the impact it had on campuses across the nation to begin conversations about free expression. In this entry, we’ll explore some common critiques of the Chicago Statement and review emerging trends in universities’ adoptions of free speech policy statements.
Reviewing Critical Responses