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Monaghan, Peter – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012
Jeremy Waldron, a professor of social and political theory at University of Oxford and also a professor of law at New York University, contends that laws against hate speech deserve further consideration, even if he doubts they "will ever pass constitutional muster in America." He contends that "The Harm in Hate Speech," as his…
Descriptors: Freedom of Speech, Reputation, Democracy, Democratic Values
Smith, John David – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2007
Slavery's unequivocal evil lies at the heart of debates over apologizing for America's "peculiar institution" and awarding reparations. In The Problem of Evil: Slavery, Freedom, and the Ambiguities of American Reform, a provocative collection of original essays, the editors Steven Mintz and John Stauffer, along with 23 contributors,…
Descriptors: Slavery, Historians, United States History, Civil Rights
Benton, Thomas H. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2006
According to this author, by now everyone in America has learned to celebrate diversity. People do so to signify that they are a good person, they are hip, trendy, and "down with the program." He claims, however, that in academe, the word "diversity" still functions as a rhetorical trump card, always uttered with the tonal…
Descriptors: Justice, Student Diversity, Affirmative Action, Cultural Pluralism