A commentary Jon Sanders wrote in 1999 has been resurrected and elevated to “timely classic” status by the Foundation for Economic Education, due to its relevance to the current flap over politically incorrect statements made by Harvard’s Lawrence Summers. In Wisconsin’s Choice, Sanders discussed speech codes put into place at the University of Wisconsin by Donna Shalala, who, in 1993, became Bill Clinton’s secretary of HHS. Sanders noted that Shalala’s 1989 student speech code, which catered to the notion of “hate speech,” was declared unconstitutional by a federal judge in 1991.
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