Princeton professor Keith Whittington argues that ideological diversity among faculty matters for the core mission of a university. This lecture builds on Dr. Whittington’s research on free speech, intellectual diversity, and open inquiry, and his book Speak Freely: Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech. Keith E. Whittington is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics at Princeton University. He writes about American constitutional law, politics and history and American political thought. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Texas School of Law and is a member of the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences. He did his undergraduate work at the University of Texas at Austin and completed his Ph.D. in political science at Yale University. His most recent books include Speak Freely: Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech and Repugnant Laws: Judicial Review of Acts of Congress from the Founding to the Present. He is currently completing two books, Constitutional Crises, Real and Imagined and The Idea of Democracy in America, from the American Revolution to the Gilded Age. Subscribe to our channel to see upcoming videos: null The Institute for Humane Studies supports and partners with professors to promote the teaching and research of classical liberal ideas and to advance higher education’s core purpose of intellectual discovery and human progress. About Us: https://theihs.org/who-we-are/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/theihs?lang=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InstituteforHumaneStudies/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/instituteforhumanestudies/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theihs/