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Greg Lukianoff

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Gregory Christopher Lukianoff is an American lawyer, journalist, author and activist who serves as the president of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). He previously served as FIRE's first director of legal and public advocacy until he was appointed president in 2006.

Across 1 conversation, Greg Lukianoff ranges across radicalization, academic freedom, free speech. Cancel culture has led to over 1,000 attempts to punish professors, with two-thirds resulting in some form of punishment since 2014. The Stop WOKE Act was deemed unconstitutional, highlighting the tension between state control and academic freedom.

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The 'perfect rhetorical fortress' is a tactic to dismiss arguments by labeling them conservative, preventing engagement with the actual argument.
#397Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech
Lukianoff's Pure Informational Theory of Freedom of Speech posits that understanding what people really think is essential for an accurate picture of the world.
#397Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech
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So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed
by John Ronson
Freedom from Speech
by Greg Lukianoff
The Canceling of the American Mind
by Greg Lukianoff
Origins of Political Order
by Francis Fukuyama
The Coddling of the American Mind
by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Woke Ideas
by John McWhorter
Racial Paranoia
by David O. Sears
Poison Ivy
by Evan Mandery

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Repressive Tolerance
by Herbert Marcuse

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Can We Take a Joke?
by Greg Lukianoff
Mighty Ira
by Nico Purino, Chris Malby, Aaron Reese

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The Free Press
by Bari Weiss
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