Americans agree that democracy requires freedom of speech. But a large minority also thinks it’s acceptable to bar certain subjects or speakers from public debate.
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You think 2024 has been packed with a ceaseless and exhausting stream of consequential events? So did Americans in 1940, 1968 and 1973.
While people rely less on TV for their daily news than they used to, it remains influential − and the TV storytelling about student protests against Israel’s war in Gaza and more can shift opinions.
Pro-Palestinian protesters occupying the University of Toronto dismantled their encampment in advance of a deadline issued by the university after being granted a court injunction.
Student-led protests in response to US engagement in the Vietnam War mounted in the 1960s and led to a group called the Weather Underground that believed in direct confrontation with the state.
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Associate Professor of Disaster and Emergency Management, York University, Canada
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James S. Sherman Professor of Government, Hamilton College
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Associate Professor of Practice of Public Policy, University of Michigan
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Research Professor of Political Science and Executive Director of The Future of Free Speech, Vanderbilt University
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Senior Advisor to the Chancellor, Head of Vanderbilt's Project on Unity and American Democracy, and Co-Director of Vanderbilt Poll, Vanderbilt University
