{"id":39020,"date":"2017-06-21T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=39020"},"modified":"2017-06-20T12:02:14","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T16:02:14","slug":"college-students-think-freedom-is-not-a-big-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/06\/21\/college-students-think-freedom-is-not-a-big-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"College Students &#8216;Think Freedom is Not a Big Deal&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SLuPTTmE72I\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Published on 20 Jun 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sociologist Frank Fruedi and Reason&#8217;s Nick Gillespie discuss the decline of free speech on campus and his new book, <em>What Happened to the University: a Sociological Exploration of its Infantilisation<\/em>.<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\n&#8220;For the first time, a growing number of young people actually think freedom isn&#8217;t a big deal,&#8221; says sociologist Frank Furedi, who&#8217;s an emeritus professor at the University of Kent and author of the new book, <em>What Happened to the University: a sociological exploration of its infantilisation<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The university was once a place where students valued free speech and risk taking, but today &#8220;a very illiberal ethos has become institutionalized,&#8221; says Furedi. &#8220;In many respects, it&#8217;s easier to speak about controversial subjects outside the university&#8230;It&#8217;s a historic role reversal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Furedi sat down with <em>Reason<\/em>&#8216;s Nick Gillespie to talk about the roots of this intellectual shift on campus \u2014 and how to fix it.<\/p>\n<p>Edited by Mark McDaniel. Cameras by Jim Epstein and Kevin Alexander. Music by Bensound.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on 20 Jun 2017 Sociologist Frank Fruedi and Reason&#8217;s Nick Gillespie discuss the decline of free speech on campus and his new book, What Happened to the University: a Sociological Exploration of its Infantilisation. &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- &#8220;For the first time, a growing number of young people actually think freedom isn&#8217;t a big deal,&#8221; says sociologist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,79,10,53,13],"tags":[186,238,139,504,764],"class_list":["post-39020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-education","category-liberty","category-politics","category-usa","tag-freedomofspeech","tag-offensensitivity","tag-psychology","tag-teenagers","tag-university"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-a9m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39021,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39020\/revisions\/39021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}