Academia, Free Speech

Turley to Debate Free Speech at Harvard Law School

On Thursday, I have the pleasure of debating Harvard Professor Randall Kennedy on the question “Does Harvard support free speech and intellectual diversity?” I will be taking the opposing position.

Professor Kennedy is the Michael R. Klein Professor of Law at Harvard and the author of seven books, including Race, Crime, and the Law; Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal; The Persistence of the Color Line; For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law; and Say It Loud!: On Race, Law, History, and Culture.

The debate will be open to the public. I hope to see some of our Bostonian blog community at the event. You may register in person or online here: cvent.me/B0ONaD #harvard #freespeech #intellectual #diversity #policy

It will be begin at 12:20 at Harvard Law School on Thursday, October 17th.

I welcome the opportunity for a civil and substantive discussion of free speech and intellectual diversity in academia.

I wish to thank Professor Kennedy, Harvard Law School, and the sponsors, including Harvard Alumni for Free Speech, the Harvard Federalist Society, The Steamboat Institute, and the Adolph Coors Foundation.

The event will be held at:

Ames Courtroom, Austin Hall, Floor 2

1515 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA 02138
You can register here.

Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University and the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”

26 thoughts on “Turley to Debate Free Speech at Harvard Law School”

  2. Harvard will be cutting off Professor Turley’s mike whenever he appears to be winning in Harvard’s judgment. However, in a show of Harvard’s free speech policies and practices, Harvard has vowed not to cut off the Professor’s mike more than 40% of the time he speaks except under extraordinarily circumstances.

    1. I hope not but you’re probably right. How do you debate someone who doesn’t realize that by the very act of doing so they confirm everything Turley’s saying? The irony’s to stark to miss yet somehow they do.

  3. …ok so tomorrows the day kid… you’ve trained for it. Sweated and worked for it and the night of the big fights finally here.

    I want you getting a good nights sleep tonight, … don’t be out boozing and girl chasin all night, … eat plenty of steak and potatoes and no coffee after 5. I want you to go in there tomorrow, hit em hard, him fast and don’t let up. Get him on the ropes and keep him there then go for the knockout. No tko’s tomorrow kid. the titles at stake here and its all or nothin. So don’t stop till he’s on the canvas with a 10 count.

    Now lets get a good nights sleep and we’ll see you at the gardens in the morning. Go get em champ. You earned this.

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