The Economist Asks

The Economist asks: Do safe spaces and trigger warnings clash with liberal values?

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Across America, there have been calls on university campuses to limit free speech. Anne McElvoy travels to the University of Chicago to explore the arguments. And a US correspondent, Idrees Kahloon, reflects on his student days at Harvard, when social justice campaigns riled him.


Music by Chris Zabriskie “Divider” (CC by 4.0 UK)



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