Oct 7, 2026 · 19 min · 9 segments
Ep804 Last week, Steven Crowder hosted the first edition of his new series titled “Change My Mind: Professor Debates.” His guest was Harvard Law Professor Dr. Randall Kennedy. Professor Kennedy served…
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And the first installment of this particular tour was where he had a guest, a Harvard Law professor by the name of Dr. Randall Kennedy.
Professor Kennedy served as the law clerk for the United States Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and is the author of the book called Interracial Intimacies.
He's an accomplished professor, and he has actually served as a clerk, a law clerk, to one of the Supreme Court justices, a famous one, Thurgood Marshall.
Now, the topic of the debate between Mr. Crowder and Dr. Kennedy was this, and I quote, "'Is free speech dead on college campuses?' Close quote.
And essentially, Crowder is saying, yes, it is, because conservatives are discriminated against to the extent where they don't feel they have the freedom to speak their mind, to write papers that express their conservative worldviews, to engage in classroom debate that are conservative in nature, where they are conservative in nature.
within a classroom that's loaded up with liberals and with a professor that's liberal likewise.
Do conservatives feel free to enter into the conversation, to have a good argument, a robust exchange of ideas within the academy, or are they afraid that if they do so, they'll be graded down or they may actually fail the class? That's the point.
So Crowder titled it, Is Free Speech Dead on College Campuses? And this is what the professor essentially said.
And a young woman approached the microphone and she said the following, and I'm going to quote her right now.
She said, I recently graduated from the University of Southern California, which is very similar to Harvard in a lot of ways.
I had to lie on papers to graduate because professors would grade me lower because of my opinions.
And the first installment of this particular tour was where he had a guest, a Harvard Law professor by the name of Dr. Randall Kennedy.
Professor Kennedy served as the law clerk for the United States Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and is the author of the book called Interracial Intimacies.
He's an accomplished professor, and he has actually served as a clerk, a law clerk, to one of the Supreme Court justices, a famous one, Thurgood Marshall.
Now, the topic of the debate between Mr. Crowder and Dr. Kennedy was this, and I quote, "'Is free speech dead on college campuses?' Close quote.
And essentially, Crowder is saying, yes, it is, because conservatives are discriminated against to the extent where they don't feel they have the freedom to speak their mind, to write papers that express their conservative worldviews, to engage in classroom debate that are conservative in nature, where they are conservative in nature.
within a classroom that's loaded up with liberals and with a professor that's liberal likewise.
Do conservatives feel free to enter into the conversation, to have a good argument, a robust exchange of ideas within the academy, or are they afraid that if they do so, they'll be graded down or they may actually fail the class? That's the point.
So Crowder titled it, Is Free Speech Dead on College Campuses? And this is what the professor essentially said.
And a young woman approached the microphone and she said the following, and I'm going to quote her right now.
She said, I recently graduated from the University of Southern California, which is very similar to Harvard in a lot of ways.
I had to lie on papers to graduate because professors would grade me lower because of my opinions.
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