This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Tuesday, February 9th, 2016.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Free Speech on Campus received heightened detention in 2015.

Greg Lucianov, president of the Foundation for

Individual Rights and Education, discussed with me last week

about the recently concluded debate on campus speech

held at Cato One Bound.

2015 was a big year for campus speech

and controversy surrounding it,

but you argue that this has been a long time in coming. is at least in part because of the federal office of civil rights in the Justice

Department that this is in some sense been a long time coming.

Absolutely and that was one of the fun things about writing for Cato andbound is I got to take a sort of a 30,000 foot view of it from, you know,

Fire's been around since 1999 now, and we've watched all of these different trends.

And it's been amazing watching how much more the media is

paying attention to campus free speech issues and in some ways I think it's a

little bit there's a little bit of a sense of like where have you guys been you

know from fire's perspective

certainly Cato and certainly Walter Olson has always been paying attention

to this issue but outside of you know outside of Cato it doesn't get nearly enough

attention but for my entire career the sat the reason why it's getting more attention now is one that, you know,

although conservatives have complained about political correctness for a very long time, it's starting to come from people, this year it started to come from people like

Jonathan Chate and you know it appears in the nation and in Vox and in New York magazine.

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