Free Speech and equality on Campuses: Some Principles and Recommendations.

Academic Engagement Network interviewed Professor Dale Carpenter, an expert on constitutional law. He urges discussion and debate, not censorship of objectionable speech or speakers. Yet serious disruption of speech should not be allowed because it hampers the free exchange of ideas. There is no constitutionally protected right to shout down a speaker because a “heckler’s veto” makes it hard for the speaker to get a point across. This is a rich, timely discussion.