{"id":9835,"date":"2014-08-23T12:37:50","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T19:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/?p=9835"},"modified":"2014-09-04T12:43:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T19:43:00","slug":"university-campuses-the-least-free-place-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/university-campuses-the-least-free-place-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"University Campuses: The Least Free Place in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9836\" src=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Campus_Speech_Codes_01_300x190.jpg\" alt=\"University Campuses: The Least Free Place in America\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" hspace=\"5\" \/>by Greg Lukianoff<br \/>\n<strong>Once the vanguard of open debate and free speech, American universities and colleges have become a place where alternative thinking goes to die.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Question:<\/em> Which American institution&#8211;one that prides itself on being open, democratic, and diverse&#8211;punishes its members severely for offering unpopular opinions, while it offers them a very narrow, limited worldview?<\/p>\n<p><em>Answer:<\/em> Universities. Once the vanguard of open debate and free speech, colleges have become a place where alternative thinking goes to die. Students who speak out on behalf of traditional American ideals, unfortunately, are often silenced by college administrators. Learn how the college campus, a place that should be an intellectual melting pot, has turned into anything but, violating the rights of those who have alternate opinions. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dJaM8IOev7E\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>HT: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prageruniversity.com\/Political-Science\/The-Least-Free-Place-in-America.html#.VAi6OZJide9\" target=\"_blank\">Prager University<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Greg Lukianoff Once the vanguard of open debate and free speech, American universities and colleges have become a place where alternative thinking goes to die. Question: Which American institution&#8211;one that prides itself on being open, democratic, and diverse&#8211;punishes its members severely for offering unpopular opinions, while it offers them a very narrow, limited worldview? &#8230; <a title=\"University Campuses: The Least Free Place in America\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/university-campuses-the-least-free-place-in-america\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about University Campuses: The Least Free Place in America\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[66,133,142,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-leftist-hypocrisy","category-leftist-tyranny","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}