You know you are winning when powerful people become hypocrites to claim they agree with you. That’s how free speech advocates should view Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber’s Terms of Respect: How Colleges Get Free Speech Right. Eisgruber, a gifted attorney, leads elite opposition to higher education reform. He personifies the establishment, as one might say back in the day--The Man. Eisgruber’s book displays the mindset of leaders who realize they can no longer use raw power to enforce compliance and must instead negotiate with the normies. As Ronald Reagan said of an empire bigger and meaner than Princeton, we free speech activists should trust but verify.
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