Why is my Substack called Freedom To Offend?

And the Strange Case of How a Canadian University and College Cancelled Free Speech — and Why So Many Others Quietly Did the Same.

Most universities and colleges claim to support free speech. “Silence,” or the modern administrative equivalent—“watch what you say or else”—is rarely engraved in Latin on their coat of arms.

The interesting question is not why institutions proclaim their devotion to liberty. The interesting question is why so many of them panic the moment someone actual…