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15 Law, Culture & Human. 5 (2019)

handle is hein.journals/lculh15 and id is 1 raw text is: Law, Culture and the Humanities 2019, Vol. 15(1) 5 Editorial @ The Author(s) 2018 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions DOI: 10.1177/1743872118820606 journals.sagepub.com/home/ich OSAGE On college campuses across the United States debates rage about free speech and its limits. Demonstrations and protests against controversial, conservative speakers at a few universities have fueled the media machine. Academics are now regularly accused of being intolerant of views that do not hew to a politically progressive/politically correct line. These accusations are often directed at humanists, social scientists, and legal scholars. I am not sure what to make of these accusations. Do I detect a hint of impatience in the American academy with right-wing provocateurs? Sure. But do I think that conserva- tive views are repressed? No. Just look at syllabi in political science, sociology, English, and I expect you will find plenty of conservative views which are carefully and respect- fully examined. This does not mean that we do not need to be self-conscious and self- critical about our points of intolerance, whatever they are. This posture is all the more important at a time when the values of openness and free inquiry that are central to the academy are under attack and when we are being baited by a rather well-orchestrated campaign. Austin Sarat Amherst College, USA

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