Jelani Cobb is a staff writer at the New Yorker and a professor of journalism at Columbia University. He writes frequently about race, politics, history, and culture. His most recent book is The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress. He won the 2015 Sidney Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism, for his columns on race, the police, and injustice.

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• Free Speech vs Safe Space: The Great Campus Divide, co-presented by PEN America and TLS.