6/5/2023 0 Comments The coddling of american mindStudents, who had traditionally been FIRE’s best allies on campus for defending free speech, started vocally demanding new speech codes and for controversial - and sometimes uncontroversial - speakers to be disinvited from speaking on campuses. To those of us on the front lines, it was a sudden, jarring, and puzzling shift. We were finally making some headway with the Department of Education’s overbroad and dangerous regulations relating to both free speech and due process and we were working constructively with many new institutions and organizations as FIRE’s national profile and reputation grew.īut, beginning in the fall of 2013, something changed on campus. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education’s (my organization, FIRE) legal battle against campus speech codes was undefeated, and unconstitutional speech codes, while still on the books at far too many colleges, were in retreat. If there is one thing I’ve learned in 20 years defending free speech on college campuses, it’s to be a little suspicious when everything seems to be going well. EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first part of a multi-part series updating developments since the publication of "The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting up a Generation for Failure" (2018).
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