Lynn Levine Greenky
Lynn Levine Greenky, Associate Teaching Professor at Syracuse University in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, authored “When Freedom Speaks: The Boundaries and the Boundlessness of our First Amendment Right. “Professor Greenky highlights the relationship of the First Amendment to our government, politics, and culture, especially in the areas of book banning, teacher and student speech, campus codes and cancel culture such as undertaken by Florida Governor DeSantis and Critical Race Theory demagogues. She delineates the difference between incitement and advocacy. For example, many of the January 6 insurgents who attacked the Capitol believed the election was stolen and were lied to by Donald Trump who, reportedly, admitted several times he had lost in a fair and free election to Joe Biden. First Amendment protections, freedom of assembly and a free press are critical to democracies that are under siege by anti-democratic forces such as those operating in the US, Brazil, the Philippines, Turkey and Hungary.
