California’s colleges and universities should be fostering free expression and promoting viewpoint diversity because these are the essential conditions for acquiring actual knowledge. Instead, according to the College Free Speech Rankings recently released by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), campuses throughout the state have become environments where self-censorship is in, and dissent […]
Brian Goebel
Brian Goebel is a co-founder of the Spotlight Santa Barbara speaker series; an adjunct professor of public policy at Pepperdine University’s School of Public Policy; a board member of the Montecito Water District and Groundwater Sustainability Agency; and a recognized expert on homeland security, immigration, water policy and data analysis. The opinions expressed are his own.
