Timothy Ryan – The Conversation

Demonstrators shout slogans during a rally for free speech near the University of California, Berkeley campus. AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez

February 19, 2020

What liberals and conservatives get wrong about free expression on college campuses

Timothy Ryan, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Mark McNeilly, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

A lot of the pressure that leads college students to keep their views to themselves comes from other students, not faculty, new research shows.

President Donald Trump speaks in the Rose Garden. AP Photo/ Evan Vucci

January 28, 2019

The shutdown took so long to end because it became a moral issue

Timothy Ryan, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Andrew W. Delton, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Peter DeScioli, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)

Research on the psychology of politics reveals that when issues are framed in terms of moral right and wrong, the possibility of compromise becomes very small.

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