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Free Speech Panel at USC

Colin Moriarty, Dave Rubin, Steve Simpson

Presented at: Free Speech in America 2017

Venue: Seeley G. Mudd Building, USC –– Los Angeles CA

Date: Apr 13, 2017

College used to be grounded in the inviolate principle that each of us should confront new ideas, speak our minds, and learn. Has that time passed? This year alone we have seen a riot at U.C. Berkeley and violence at Middlebury College over controversial speakers. Instead of “express yourself,” a new view seems to be taking hold: “Suppress yourself—or I’ll do it for you.” What is happening to free speech on campus?

In this panel discussion (sponsored by the Ayn Rand Institute and the University of Southern California Political Student Assembly and Young Americans for Liberty), three leading voices in this field address current threats to freedom of speech on college campuses: Dave Rubin, Creator and Host of "The Rubin Report"; Colin Moriarty, Creator and Host of "Colin's Last Stand," and Steve Simpson, Director of Legal Studies, Ayn Rand Institute, and editor of "Defending Free Speech."

This panel was recorded live at the Seeley G. Mudd Building, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, on Thursday, April 13, 2017.

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