Greg Lukianoff Lectures on Free Speech at UVU
Wednesday, October 30, 2025 | 1 p.m. | Clarke Building (CB) 101A
The Center for Constitutional Studies at Utah Valley University, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, the Heterodox Academy, the UVU Center for the Study of Ethics, and UVU's Gary R. Herbert Institute for Public Policy sponsored a lecture by Greg Lukianoff Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2025, at 1 p.m. in Clarke Building (CB) 101A .
Lukianoff spoke on the topic of Free Speech: An Antidote to Violence.
Greg Lukianoff is an attorney, New York Times best-selling author, and president and CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE).
He is the author of Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate, Freedom From Speech, and FIRE’s Guide to Free Speech on Campus.
He co-authored The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure with Jonathan Haidt, The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution with Rikki Schlott, and, most recently, The War On Words: 10 Arguments Against Free Speech—And Why They Fail with Nadine Strossen.
Greg is also an executive producer of Can We Take a Joke?, a feature-length documentary that explores the collision between comedy, censorship, and outrage culture, both on and off campus, and of Mighty Ira: A Civil Liberties Story, an award-winning feature-length film about the life and career of former ACLU executive director Ira Glasser.