My review of my own book
I contemplated writing In Defense of Free Speech in Universities: A Study of Three Jurisdictions, which was published last fall, in the summer of 2018, a few months after the Lindsay Shepherd incident in Canada. Living in Canada at the time, I became increasingly aware of a free speech crisis on many of its university campuses. I listened to the recording multiple times, each time becoming more angered, until I became fully committed to writing the book. Nonetheless, it did not dawn upon me how serious the whole situation was, until something happened to me later that year. That October, I travelled to a Canadian university to interview for a teaching job. The interviewers, all lawyers, expressed a very keen interest in my book project that was already taking shape. “It is highly relevant to law school,” they affirmed smilingly. They then inquired about its contents and arguments. Their inquiry was reasonably expected, though, in hindsight, quite sneaky. I...