Unsafe Space

Tom Slater is deputy editor at spiked, UK. He coordinates spiked’s free-speech campaigns Down With Campus Censorship! and the Free Speech University Rankings, the UK’s first university league table for free speech. Tom has written on politics, pop culture and free speech for the Spectator, the Telegraph, Times Higher Education, The Times and the Independent.

• Introduction: Reinvigorating the spirit of ’64; Tom Slater.- Chapter 1. From No Platform to Safe Space: A Crisis of Enlightenment; Brendan O’Neill.- Chapter 2. The ‘New’ Feminism and the Fear of Free Speech ; Nancy McDermott.- Chapter 3. Re-educating Men: The War on Lads and Frats; Tom Slater.- Chapter 4. Teaching Students to Censor: How Academics Betrayed Free Speech; Joanna Williams.- Chapter 5. Trigger Warnings: A Gun to the Head of Academia ; Greg Lukianoff.- Chapter 6. BDS: Demonising Israel, Destroying Free Speech; Sean Collins.- Chapter 7. Debating Abortion on Campus: Let Both Pro and Antis Speak ; Jon O’Brien.- Chapter 8. A Climate of Censorship: Eco-orthodoxy on Campus; Peter Wood.- Chapter 9. Terrorism and Free Speech: An Unholy Alliance of State and Students; Tom Slater.- Chapter 10. Academic Freedom: The Threat from Within; Frank Furedi.-Conclusion: How to Make your University an Unsafe Space; Tom Slater.