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Wendy Kaminer: PC Doesn’t Mean You Can’t Speak Up

Learn Liberty Academy — Thu, 08 Feb 2018 12:30:12 +0000

Video Description: Social critic Wendy Kaminer agrees that political correctness has become a real problem, but also asks: to what degree are complaints about “PC” and being “self-censored” a cover for individual timidity?

Excerpted from Spiked Magazine’s ‘Unsafe Space Tour’ panel discussion at Harvard University.

Is It Unfair to Pay CEOs Billions? Q&A with Prof. Howie Baetjer

Learn Liberty Academy — Mon, 29 Jan 2018 12:30:37 +0000

Is it fair that CEOs get paid millions—even billions—while there are so many people still in poverty? Well, it depends! Watch the second entry in our question and answer series with Prof. Howie Baetjer.

Does Heckling Violate Freedom of Speech?

Learn Liberty Academy — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 12:30:02 +0000

When someone tries to disrupt a public speaker, are they making an assault on freedom of speech, or just utilizing their own freedom of speech? Prof. Angus Johnston and journalist Brendan O’Neill share their thoughts.

Excerpted from Spiked Magazine’s ‘Unsafe Space Tour’ panel discussion at New York Law School.

Bret Weinstein: Left and Right Libertarians Should Unite

Learn Liberty Academy — Mon, 15 Jan 2018 12:30:10 +0000

Bret Weinstein, evolutionary biologist and former professor at Evergreen State College, makes the case that those who value liberty—whether we lean right or lean left—should unite in its defense.

Excerpted from Spiked Magazine’s ‘Unsafe Space Tour’ panel discussion at New York Law School.

“There Will Be Blood” — The Ethics of Compensation for Bodily Fluids

Learn Liberty Academy — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 12:30:32 +0000

Is human blood a “public resource”? Prof. Peter Jaworski argues that your bodily fluids belong to you, and governments should let you sell them.

What is Communism? Q&A with Prof. Howie Baetjer

Learn Liberty Academy — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 12:30:14 +0000

How is Communism described in theory, and how does it play out in the real world? Join us for our question and answer series with Prof. Howie Baetjer.

Steven Pinker: Political Correctness Might be Redpilling America

Learn Liberty Academy — Tue, 02 Jan 2018 12:30:46 +0000

Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker argues that political correctness actually breeds the very same extremist views it hopes to quash.

Excerpted from Spiked Magazine’s ‘Unsafe Space Tour’ panel discussion at Harvard University.

Are Campuses Really More PC Today?

Learn Liberty Academy — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 12:35:44 +0000

And are “Millennial snowflakes” really to blame? Steven Pinker, Robby Soave, Wendy Kaminer, and Brendan O’Neill discuss the past and present of campus speech codes. Excerpted from the Spiked Magazine ‘Unsafe Space Tour’ panel discussion at Harvard University. Moderated by Tom Slater (of Spiked Magazine.)

Spiked Magazine Panel – “Is Political Correctness Why Trump Won?”

Learn Liberty Academy — Mon, 11 Dec 2017 17:41:59 +0000

Is political correctness why Trump won? Watch the Unsafe Space Tour panel discussion at Harvard University, featuring Steven Pinker, Wendy Kaminer, Robby Soave and Brendan O’Neill. Moderated by Tom Slater (of Spiked Magazine).

A Brief History of Title IX

Learn Liberty Academy — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 12:30:37 +0000

“Title IX” was never intended to regulate romantic relationships on campus. So how did we get here? Robert Shibley, Executive Director of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, explains.