Increasingly, college students have been prevented from engaging in an open and controversial discussion.

Red Alert Politics reports.

‘Make them feel uncomfortable’: Professor calls for free speech, amid growing campus censorship

The newest salvo for free speech on campus revives a tradition dating back to John Stuart Mill.

Joanna Williams, a senior lecturer of higher education at the University of Kent and an editor at Spiked, advocates embracing the role of higher education as a “marketplace of ideas” in the pursuit of knowledge. That means eschewing administrative and student censorship of controversial ideas and engaging in a serious discussion of ideas.

The advantage of a marketplace of ideas is that the best, least refutable ideas will win out no matter how often they are contested by whom. The assumption that some knowledge is incontestable contributes towards a culture of conformity in universities,” Williams wrote.