Tuesday, September 24, 2019

Not Sure of Your Own Position? Resist the Temptation to Suppress the Free Speech of Others


April Kelly-Woessner is a political scientist who studies tolerance and viewpoint diversity in the academy.

In the Heterodox Academy podcast episode on "Declining Political Tolerance," she reports that the people who most want to suppress free speech, on the left and the right, are the ones least confident of their ability to defend their own position.