I don't think a presidential executive order is the right way to handle the campus free speech problem. (I also oppose presidential EOs in general.)https://reason.com/blog/2019/03/03/trump-executive-order-campus-free-speech …
Respectfully disagree. I've fought for free speech in higher ed for years, and IMHO administrators simply won't support #1A unless their funding is threatened. This is one culture war that can't be won at just the cultural level.
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Do you suppose it would be effective in the long-term? Any chance it would end up being counter-productive long term?
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I think an XO from POTUS would be by far the most effective long-term solution that's politically realistic.
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Technically, public funding of universities always required compliance with
#1A. In practice though, universities had little incentive to support free speech.
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Sure, that could happen. The optics would be pretty bad though...
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If we learned anything from Obama->Trump it's that anything done with a single pen can be undone with a single pen. EOs are always a stopgap measure at best. If this is a truly serious problem (it is), then it deserves the full weight of proper legislation.
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If this is a truly serious problem (it is a real national emergency, IMHO), then it deserves to be solved asap by any credible means necessary. Congress will _never_ make public unis respect free speech. It's just not politically useful to their bases. Courts have also failed.
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I don’t know if Robby is aware that ppl have been fighting against policies frequently used on campuses ( written by fervent anti free speech/due process authoritarians) that are designed to abuse students speech rights, and much more, for 3 decades. When policies that have been
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ruled against in several courts for 30 years are still wrongfully enforced on many, expanded upon, and new policies with the same goals in mind are routinely written and implemented, something has to be done. Ppl have exhausted every option
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