Eclipse of Reason

Professor Sochuk's work has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court, and the Sixth, Seventh, and Ninth Circuits, referenced and excerpted in leading case books in civil procedure, sexual orientation law, and immigration law, discussed by the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, and honored with the Duke Menier Award from UCLA's Williams Institute for the year's best article on sexual orientation and gender identity law.

Professor Socek's book, which is the focus of Today's discussion, The Opinionated University, subtitled Academic Freedom, Diversity, and the Myth of Neutrality in American Higher Education, was published in the University of Chicago Press just this year.

Welcome, Brian.

Thank you so much, Steve.

I appreciate it.

We are just, as I said, just delighted and honored to have this opportunity to talk with this terrific new book, which I highly want to recommend to everyone.

And if you're wondering, if listeners are wondering, well, why are we talking about academic freedom or free speech issues on campus.

I'll just remind folks that the second provocation in the equity excellence imperative of the aforementioned Boyer report deals explicitly and addresses explicitly what the members of that commission called freedom of speech and expression in supportive campus culture.