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Free Speech & William D. Cohan

By K.C. Johnson

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Author William D. Cohan?s first written comments on the Duke case came in an unusual forum?a CNN column bizarrely arguing for lowering the national drinking age to 19 years old. Cohan?s proposal would have left the strongest moral arguments against the current policy?that if you can die for your country, you should be able to buy a beer?in place, perhaps explaining why not a single state is considering the idea. But the column seemed designed not to influence public policy but instead to give Cohan an opportunity to launch character attacks against the lacrosse players. Of the tens (hundreds?) of thousands of instances of excessive drinking on campus in the past decade, Cohan focused on the lacrosse party.Having departed Bloomberg View for the Huffington Post, Cohan used his inaugural HuffPost column to again ostensibly comment on a policy issue but mostly to discuss The Price of Silence...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on May 22, 2014 (boomark / email).