Trigger Warnings Spark Debate Over Free Speech

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 7, 2015

Mick Hume, editor-at-large of Spiked and author of Trigger Warning: Is the Fear of Being Offensive Killing Free Speech? (HarperCollins, 2015), discusses his new book defending a "right to be offensive".

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