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Censorship-inclined students pinpoint safety as the cause of their activism. A theater instructor at an elite Northeast college complained "It really feels like teaching in the McCarthy Era" referring to her students' protests that acting exercises so triggered them that it was a source of trauma. Her class of retired combat veterans never complained. What is going on?
In his new book
PANIC ATTACK. Young Radicals in the Age of Trump, Robby Soave crystallizes the internal logic and also the terrible defects of this new philosophy. Can Antifa violence be justified? Do they really believe allowing Ben Shapiro to speak on campus will "cause harm"? We discuss the driving forces behind these behaviors that are changing academia, business, politics, law and science.
An associate editor at Reason.com, Robby Soave is an informed and important voice in the often heated conversation about political correctness and free speech in America today. He appears regularly on Fox News, CNN, and syndicated radio programs, and has published articles in The New York Times, New York Post, CNN, USA Today, U.S. News & World Report, and Newsweek. He was named to Forbes magazine's 2016 "30 Under 30" list in the category of law and policy. He received the Alumnus of the Year Award at the International Students for Liberty Conference and was appointed to the D.C. Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
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