Although this show and the following one were taped immediately after the formal debate on political correctness, their airing was postponed in order to slip in the deficit shows as Congress was reconvening. As with all of these follow-ups so far, the informal discussion is even livelier than the debate. LB: "There is on the campus and in the nation as a whole a very brittle sensibility. There is no tolerance, there is no humor. There is a deadly self-righteousness and a vulgarity.... I think we agree that the university has to try to lift the standard of behavior. Whether it's one of tolerance, whether it's one of the way we talk, it's whether we actually know what it means to take a joke and not to make it a battle cry." ... CS: "I would say that the college and university ought to be better than the rest of society ... The college and university should show the meaning of freedom of speech."
- Hoover ID: Program S0996
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