Hugh Stevens participates in Pope Center First Amendment Day Panel

SMVT partner Hugh Stevens participated in a First Amendment Day celebration at UNC-Chapel Hill.

The purpose of the panel was to discuss recent campus events or significant cultural moments with free speech implications.

Stevens … did offer a remedy—more exercise of the First Amendment, not less. He told the students to counter “offensive” or “disagreeable” ideas by doing what Hood and Dougherty had done via their counter-protest and boycott: “[Use your] First Amendment rights to challenge the legitimacy of what was said or done.”

You can read more about the event at the Pope Center’s website.