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This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Sunday, December 30th, 2018.

I'm Caleb Brown.

We're familiar with free speech issues cropping up on college campuses,

but they're mostly raised on public school campuses.

What if it's a private university where the promise of academic freedom is supposed

to be extended?

Rick Ezenburg is with the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty.

His group handled just such a case at Marquette University. We spoke in

Utah in October. Free speech on campus is an increasing issue. It's of particular interest to libertarians that want to

defend speech on principle and not on the basis of the contents of the speech in

question your organization has brought of the speech in question.

Your organization has brought some cases that deal with campus speech, but we're more

accustomed to thinking of campus speech issues as those that relate merely to publicly

administered universities. One of the cases that you're dealing with is at

Marquette and of course Marquette is a private university where the First Amendment does not apply. So describe that case.

Well, a private university certainly is not subject to the First Amendment, but most of them, most major research

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