Former Vice President Mike Pence will use a speech tonight at the University of Virginia to hit back at students who tried to prevent his appearance and to deliver a defense of free speech on campuses.
“Grow up.” That’s what Yale law professor Kate Stith recently told disruptive students when they would not allow two guest speakers representing different sides of pressing cultural debates on gender and religion to deliver remarks on why they agreed on the important issue of free speech. Campus “shout-downs” have made headlines for over a decade. But what are the driving forces behind them and the riots that increasingly plague colleges across the country?
Woke Yale students are planning to protest a scheduled talk with Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, who was invited to speak on April 11 by a student-run group.
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