The Miseducation of Free Speech
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VIRGINIA LAW REVIEW
ONLINE
VOLUME 105 DECEMBER 2019 218-242
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THE MISEDUCATION OF FREE SPEECH
Mary Anne Franks *
INTRODUCTION........................................ ..... 218
I. THE MANUFACTURED CAMPUS FREE SPEECH CRISIS . ............ 221
II. THE GOLDWATER BILL, OR THE BETRAYAL OF TNKER ....... ..... 232
III. COMPETING FREE SPEECH CULTURES: THE INTERNET VERSUS THE
UNIVERSITY ..................................... ...... 236
CONCLUSION ............................................... 240
INTRODUCTION
The claim that America's campuses are in the midst of a free speech
crisis has been made so often and so emphatically that it has widely
become accepted as fact.' According to the prevailing narrative, liberal
* Professor of Law and Dean's Distinguished Scholar, University of Miami School of Law;
President and Legislative & Tech Policy Director, Cyber Civil Rights Initiative. Portions of
this piece are excerpted from The Cult of the Constitution by Mary Anne Franks. C 2019 by
Mary Anne Franks. All Rights Reserved.
1 See, e.g., Jonathan Chait, Not a Very P.C. Thing to Say: How the Language Police are
Perverting Liberalism, N.Y. Mag. (Jan. 27, 2015), https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2015/-
0 1/not-a-very-pc-thing-to-say.html [https://perma.cc/5H7J-FVUP]; Jeannie Suk Gersen, The
Trouble with Teaching Rape Law, New Yorker (Dec. 15, 2014), https://www.newyork-
er.com/news/news-desk/trouble-teaching-rape-law [https://perma.cc/8KV9-T8CQ]; Greg Lu-
kianoff & Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind, Atlantic (Sept. 2015),
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/-
399356/ [https://perma.cc/8PEM-LE7L]; Megan McArdle, Sheltered Students Go to College,
Avoid Education, Bloomberg (Aug. 13, 2015), https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/-
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