Lindsay Shepherd went from being an unknown graduate student at an Ontario university, to becoming a subject of international controversy, all for playing a five-minute clip during a class discussion, recorded from a mainstream Canadian news program. Her professors didn’t like the conservative ideas discussed in the clip, claimed she was spreading hate and bigotry, and tried to discipline her. But she fought back. In this episode of Full Comment, Anthony Furey talks to Lindsay about her story and her new book, Diversity and Exclusion: Confronting the Campus Free Speech Crisis. (Recorded May 5, 2021).

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