Free Speech Under Attack: Skidmore College Professor Considers Restricting Free Speech to Protect the Progressive Agenda.

This article from the Washington Post is fairly good in pointing out the facts of the issue: The author acknowledges political correctness as the cause of the problem she identifies. On the surface it sounds fair but it is clearly biased by her political views. What she doesn't say is that if "speech" is a "weapon" used by conservatives, so are political correctness and censorship weapons used by progressives.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2017/08/22/when-free-speech-becomes-a-political-weapon/

Maybe liberals shouldn't be free-speech absolutists after all.

By Jennifer Delton August 22 at 6:00 AM 

Jennifer Delton is the Douglas Family Chair in American culture, history, and literary and interdisciplinary studies at Skidmore College 

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Here’s the dilemma college presidents face in the fall: Either uphold free speech on campus and risk violent counterprotests, or ban conservative provocateurs and confirm the “freedom of speech” crisis on campuses. Either way their institution’s legitimacy is undermined. 

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It is true that higher education has brought much of this on itself through the extreme policing of speech and tolerance of student protesters who shut down speakers with whom they disagree. 

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[Authur Schlesinger understood] Liberals would be chumps to let a principled commitment to “freedom of speech” undercut the pragmatic goal of political survival 

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But given our current political moment and the threat posed by the actions of alt-right provocateurs, Schlesinger’s and Hook’s arguments may bear revisiting.

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One reason the right has been able to so effectively exploit “free speech” is because campuses have become places where the free exchange of ideas has been curbed by peer pressure, self-policing and a self-righteous call-out culture, as described by Jonathan Haidt, Jonathan Chait and Mark Lilla.