You Can't Teach That!

""You Can’t Teach That! is an important and timely book. The recent wave of state legislative restrictions on academic freedom is a dangerous development, and Keith Whittington makes a strong case that these laws are inconsistent with the best understanding of First Amendment freedoms."" Thomas Moylan Keck, Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs, Syracuse University “A robust and authoritative overview of the fierce debates over academic freedom in America.” Floyd Abrams, Senior Counsel, Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP “This timely and urgent book provides the best available overview of the most aggressive attack on academic freedom since the McCarthy era. Everyone who cares about American higher education should read it.” Jonathan Rauch, Brookings Institution “superb” The Dispatch “an effective warning and encouragement for the protection of academic freedom.” Law & Liberty “Among the broader public, free expression is selling books. Scholars such as Yale University political scientist Keith E. Whittington, author of the recent book You Can’t Teach That!, have challenged campus groupthink in the most damning and effective way, by pointing out that enforced conformity of thought strikes at the heart of the academic enterprise: the advance of knowledge through, and only through, the collision and constant comparison of alternative views.” Mitch Daniels, Washington Post