“Chilling” is the word used in the Washington Post headline to describe college students’ supposed hostility to free speech. College students are much more open to free speech than the general public. Also from this poll, the college students who identified as Democrats were more open to free speech than their Republican peers. Our phony free speech crisis is a pet theory of people triggered to sputtering outrage by a black man who fails to stand for the national anthem. Empirical data suggests that free speech is alive and well on campus, but what about the evidence of our eyes?

Source: Forbes September 23, 2017 19:18 UTC