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This new book, written by Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber, pushed back against the notion that American universities were liberal bastions unwelcoming to conservatives. He defended universities against allegations that they betray free speech, indoctrinate students, and censor civil discussion in the book.
Eisgruber is a constitutional scholar, a man of many degrees, and also the author of a new book about the First Amendment, which is out this week, Terms of Respect, How Colleges Get Free Speech Right.
— Episode: The campus resistance
Episode: The campus resistance
This new book, written by Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber, pushed back against the notion that American universities were liberal bastions unwelcoming to conservatives. He defended universities against allegations that they betray free speech, indoctrinate students, and censor civil discussion in the book.
Eisgruber is a constitutional scholar, a man of many degrees, and also the author of a new book about the First Amendment, which is out this week, Terms of Respect, How Colleges Get Free Speech Right.
But first, let's talk about your book. It's called Terms of Respect, How Colleges Get Free Speech Right. A lot of people in the Trump administration don't think that.
But in it, you defend universities against allegations that they are betraying free speech, indoctrinating students, and censoring civil discussion.
One of the things I say in the book is that you've got to let those storms die down and you've got to respect due process and you've got to respect academic freedom for the faculty members.