Law Schools and the Impoverished View of Free Speech

Books by two broadly libertarian lawyers—Jonathan Turley’s The Indispensable Right and Ilya Shapiro’s Lawless—seek to explain what Turley calls the “alliance of academic, media, and corporate interests with the government” which has “created an existential threat” to free speech. Law professor Bruce P. Frohnen finds that the “problem is that both authors overlook the role played by educational corruption in producing authoritarian institutions, beliefs, and practices—especially on university campuses.”