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This Is Your Brain on Political Correctness

In Campus Politics, history professor Jonathan Zimmerman ­­­argues that the marriage of psychology and political discourse has hurt our capacity for debate.

“Free speech.”

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Trigger warning: Scrutiny of safe spaces ahead. Jonathan Zimmerman discusses the political-correctness fever sweeping the nation’s elite college campuses. Zimmerman is the author of Campus Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know.

In the Spiel, blinded by a baccalaureate.

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