Free speech and the ideological fight for college campuses

Hosted by Warren Olney May. 01, 2017 National

Conservatives claim that American colleges and universities are bastions of liberal orthodoxy, shielding students from alternative ways of thinking. What better place for a protest than UC Berkeley? What better agent of controversy than Ann Coulter?

Photo of Ann Coulter by Gage Skidmore

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Host:
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