Authoritarians in the Academy | The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression

FIRE Senior Scholar Sarah
McLaughlin discusses her new book, “Authoritarians in the Academy: How the
Internationalization of Higher Education and Borderless Censorship
Threaten Free Speech.”

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

01:17 Book origins

03:38 How China censored speech on American
campuses

18:36 COVID’s impact for international students’
speech

22:05 What is sensitivity exploitation?

25:35 Free speech at international satellite
campuses

31:28 Attempted deportations of Mahmoud Khalil and
Rumeysa Ozturk

36:52 Sarah’s free speech inspirations: literature and
people

Read the transcript here:
https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/so-speak-transcript-authoritarians-academy

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