by Thomas C. Grey

About the author: Thomas C. Grey is Sweitzer Professor of Law at Stanford Law School.

Slogans have their place. I have put bumper stickers on my car from time to time, recognizing that they can’t treat the full complexity of an issue. But sometimes it is important to make things simple, and a good slogan can do that. “No Speech Codes” is a particularly persuasive slogan. Alan Kors is colorful in uttering it and just as persuasive when he gives his Voltairian advice on how to deal with any campus speech code: “Crush this infamy!”

That got him a lot of amens. And how could any believer in intellectual freedom at the university be for a campus speech code? I never thought of...