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College President on Free Speech, Safe Spaces, and Diversity

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 19, 2019

Michael Roth, historian, curator, and teacher and president of Wesleyan University, and author of Safe Enough Spaces: A Pragmatist’s Approach to Inclusion, Free Speech, and Political Correctness on College Campuses (Yale University Press, 2019), talks about how colleges can navigate the sometimes competing values of diversity, freedom and inclusion.

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