How did we get to this point? The contemporary culture wars offer an impossible tempest to soothe. Wrapping one’s head around fiercely opposed viewpoints and tiptoeing through the minefield of actually discussing them proves equally difficult. [Read More]
As titles go, a documentary called Speechless — dealing with battles over free speech, among other hot-button issues raging on college campuses — couldn’t be more apt. [Read More]
Canadian documentary-maker Ric Esther Bienstock’s head-spinning film ‘Speechless’ tells an uncomfortable story in which all sides, black or white, left or right, are implicated. [Read More]
When honest questions get reframed as instruments of oppression, the ability to disagree is lost, writes Ric Esther Bienstock, director of new documentary Speechless. [Read More]
Today we’re talking about the breakdown of discourse — the culture wars.
It’s not just in universities, it affects our interactions with everything from the government to schools, workplaces, and more. After over ten years of it, it seems more pointless and degrading than ever. [Listen Here]
Speechless, a new British-Canadian documentary about free-speech flashpoints on American college campuses, is receiving the Very Important treatment from the CBC this week. [Read More]
Toronto filmmaker Ric Esther Bienstock investigates how academia came to stifle ideas — and how campus flashpoints have migrated beyond university grounds. [Read More]
There can be no doubt that we are living through politically charged times — and this is especially true at North American universities. My guest on the program today has spent the past decade making a documentary about unrest on campus. [Listen Here]
Emmy award-winning filmmaker Ric Esther Bienstock discusses her new documentary "Speechless” – a 10-year investigation into campus culture, cancel culture, and our crisis of free speech. [Watch Here]
Ric Bienstock joins Steve to discuss her documentary Speechless, the explosion of the culture wars on college campuses, why we have lost the ability to talk to each other, and how free speech has been reshaped in colleges and beyond. [Watch Here]
Podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with filmmaker Ric Esther Bienstock about her new CBC/BBC documentary, ‘Speechless’—which explores the rise of censorship and mobbings on campus. [Watch Here]
Documentary tracks evolution of culture wars on US and UK campuses, with subjects often ‘petrified’ to speak out. [Read More]