Tag Archives: free speech

Philosophy Discusses Fearless Speech

By Robin Bates | Published: November 27, 2022

Foucault uses Euripides to describe what the Greeks meant by “fearless speech.” Such speech is important is standing up to authoritarians today.

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Rightwing Book Bans On the Rise

By Robin Bates | Published: November 11, 2021

Banning books is set of accelerate and English teachers and librarians will find themselves as targets, just like medical professionals before them.

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Should We Cancel This Children’s Classic?

By Robin Bates | Published: April 4, 2021

Should we cancel “Little Black Sambo,” which I loved as a child. I wrestle with the question here.

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Milton on Cancel Culture

By Robin Bates | Published: March 8, 2021

Yale professor Bromwich applies Milton to the cancel culture debate.

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Religion in Class? Teach It, Don’t Preach It

By Robin Bates | Published: October 22, 2017

Is academe biased against religion? Maybe to a degree, but religious background is essential for understanding most of the literature we teach.

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Free Speech on College Campuses

By Robin Bates | Published: September 27, 2017

Pew says that millennials are more in favor of policing offensive speech than other groups, which helps explain some of the commotion on college campuses. I seek to understand why and how to use literature to address it.

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