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After 35 years at the Miami Herald, journalist and novelist Carl Hiaasen retired from the paper after publishing his last opinion piece on Sunday. He won renown for his hard-hitting columns and comic crime novels. Hiaasen was on Intersection a few weeks before the presidential election in 2016. He was joined by fellow columnist and humorist Dave Barry, as well as Barbara Petersen, who served as the president of the First Amendment Foundation from 1994-2019. They discussed free speech, politics and responding to critics.
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The bill would also require public colleges and universities to survey students on whether they think the campus supports “intellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity.”
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The proposal has been filed in previous years, but appears to be moving faster after November elections that ushered in more and more conservative Republicans.
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After being denied an opportunity once to speak at the University of Florida, Richard Spencer came back, prompting a state of emergency.
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Ken Storey resigned from his job teaching sociology at the University of Tampa, after his tweet about Hurricane Harvey sparked a social media maelstrom. Eugene Volokh, who teaches first amendment law at UCLA joins Intersection for a conversation about the implications for free speech on campus and beyond.