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The academy is in crisis. Students call for speakers to be banned, books to be slapped with trigger warnings and university to be a Safe Space, free of offensive words or upsetting ideas. But as tempting as it is to write off intolerant students as a generational blip, or a science experiment gone wrong, they´ve been getting their ideas from somewhere. Bringing together leading journalists, academics and agitators from the US and UK, Unsafe Space is a wake-up call. From the war on lad culture to the clampdown on climate sceptics, we need to resist all attempts to curtail free speech on campus. But society also needs to take a long, hard look at itself. Our inability to stick up for our founding, liberal values, to insist that the free exchange of ideas should always be a risky business, has eroded free speech from within.

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Introduction: Reinvigorating the spirit of ´64; Tom Slater.- Chapter 1. From No Platform to Safe Space: A Crisis of Enlightenment; Brendan O´Neill.- Chapter 2. The ´New´ Feminism and the Fear of Free Speech ; Nancy McDermott.- Chapter 3. Re-educating Men: The War on Lads and Frats; Tom Slater.- Chapter 4. Teaching Students to Censor: How Academics Betrayed Free Speech; Joanna Williams.- Chapter 5. Trigger Warnings: A Gun to the Head of Academia ; Greg Lukianoff.- Chapter 6. BDS: Demonising Israel, Destroying Free Speech; Sean Collins.- Chapter 7. Debating Abortion on Campus: Let Both Pro and Antis Speak ; Jon O´Brien.- Chapter 8. A Climate of Censorship: Eco-orthodoxy on Campus; Peter Wood.- Chapter 9. Terrorism and Free Speech: An Unholy Alliance of State and Students; Tom Slater.- Chapter 10. Academic Freedom: The Threat from Within; Frank Furedi.-Conclusion: How to Make your University an Unsafe Space; Tom Slater.

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Tom Slater is deputy editor at spiked, UK. He coordinates spiked´s free-speech campaigns Down With Campus Censorship! and the Free Speech University Rankings, the UK´s first university league table for free speech. Tom has written on politics, pop culture and free speech for the Spectator, the Telegraph, Times Higher Education, The Times and the Independent.

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