E1350 - Academy of Dunces: A Decade of Campus Censorship

Today we're talking about the breakdown of discourse — the culture wars.

It's not just in universities, it affects our interactions with everything from the government to schools, workplaces, and more. After over ten years of it, it seems more pointless and degrading than ever.  

Ric Bienstock is a director of the new two-part CBC documentary series, Speechless. It explores a variety of student protest movements from Evergreen College in 2017 to today's protests against what's happening in Gaza.

Her film poses some key questions. How did we get here? What is brin...