CONFIRMATION TO THE SUPREME
COURT.
FREE SPEECH ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES
UNDER ATTACK AND THE TRUMP
ATTORNEY GENERAL JEFF SESSIONS
AND EDUCATION SECRETARY BETSY
DEVOS SAYS SOMETHING HAS TO BE
DONE.
WHY ARE WE SEEING THESE
DISTURBING TRENDS ON CAMPUS AND
WHAT ELSE THE SOLUTION.
THE PRESIDENT OF THE FOUNDATION
FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND
EDUCATION.
HOW GOOD INTENTIONS AND BAD
IDEAS ARE SETTING UP A
GENERATION FOR FAILURE.
I BECOME WORRIED WHEN THE
ATTORNEY GENERAL AND EDUCATION
SECRETARY SAY THEY ARE GOING TO
INVESTIGATION FROM THE TOP.
THE GOOD NEWS IS PARTIALLY DUE
CODES ON PUBLIC CAMPUSES THAN
THERE WERE IN 2011.
WE WENT FROM 75% OF THEM HAVING
THAT'S GOOD NEWS.
THE WEEK I WROTE IS ABOUT WHY
KENNEDY: WHY IS THAT?
I HEARD AN AUTHOR MATTHEW
HENNESEY TALK ABOUT THE FEAR OF
CRITICISM.
CRITIQUE EQUALS DEMONIZATION.
>> WE TALK ABOUT THIS AS
CALL-OUT CULTURE.
WHAT WE FOUND IN THE BOOK IS THE
2013-2014 START DATE WASN'T
CO-INCIDENTAL.
THE GENERATION WE ARE TALKING
ABOUT IS, THEY ARE NOT
MILLENNIALS.
THEY ARE BORN AFTER 1995 AND
THEY HAVE DIFFERENT
CHARACTERISTICS.
AND ONE OF THEM IS, THERE ARE
MORE CONSERVATIVES AMONG THEM
BUT IT'S AT THE EXPENSE OF THERE
BEING FEWER MODERATES.
ALSO THEIR ATTITUDES ON FREE
SPEECH ARE TROUBLING.
KENNEDY: WHAT DOES THAT HAVE TO
DO WITH TECHNOLOGY?
IT SEEMS AS THOUGH THERE IS AN
HE QUESTION ESSENCE THAT PRIVACY
IS NO LONGER VALUABLE IT WAS
ALMOST AS THOUGH THERE WAS
SOMETHING COUPLED ABOUT FREE
SPEECH AND PRIVACY THAT'S NOW --
>> A LOT OF THE BIKES A SOCIAL
SCIENCE DETECTIVE STORY TRYING
TO FIGURE OUT WHY ANXIETY AND
DEPRESSION WENT UP AT THE SAME
TIME.
WE PREDICTED IT WOULD IN 2015
ONE OF THE CULPRITS IS THIS IS
IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT, HAVING
THE WORST ASPECTS OF JUNIOR HIGH
SCHOOL 24 HOURS A DAY FOR THE
REST OF YOUR LIFE COULD SOUR YOU
ON FREE SPEECH.
KENNEDY: YOU AND JONATHON ARE
INCREDIBLE WRITERS AND YOU DO
