Consolation Prizes
How Campus Panics Escape Containment
On Thursday, September 11 — not 24 hours after Charlie Kirk had been assassinated on the campus of Utah Valley University — the Chronicle of Higher Education ran a piece about the incident and the reaction. Written by Jack Stripling and Nell Gluckman, it was an interesting, if frustrating read. The murder, Stripling and Gluckman wrote, marked “a historic moment that will jolt already-intense debates about free speech, civil discourse, and political polarization on college campuses.” In other words, they saw the killing of Kirk as an outgrowth of a long-gestating “debate” about campus speech.
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