Hostname: page-component-7c8c6479df-27gpq Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-03-28T03:22:55.952Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Speak No Evil: The Triumph of Hate Speech Regulation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2006

Donald A. Downs
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin

Extract

Speak No Evil: The Triumph of Hate Speech Regulation. By Jon B. Gould. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 241p. $19.00.

Beginning in the later 1980s, universities and colleges across the land adopted speech codes prohibiting expression that disparages individuals or groups based on their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and other characteristics. Because freedom of speech is central to the historic mission of higher education, the new “progressive” form of censorship encountered resistance, especially when it began to be misapplied to viewpoints that merely transgressed from reigning campus orthodoxies.

Type
BOOK REVIEWS: AMERICAN POLITICS
Copyright
© 2006 American Political Science Association

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)