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The Chill Is Nothing New

There is a chill on campus, but that's nothing new. For decades, campus speech has been chilled by speech codes and other attempts to prevent expression that might offend. Some would like to imagine that the excesses of "political correctness" are ancient history, but repression in the name of tolerance hasn't gone anywhere. Oppressive speech...

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