%0 Journal Article %A Veber, Michael Veber %D 2025 %J Journal of Controversial Ideas %@ 2694-5991 %V 5 %N 2 %P 4 %T With Friends Like These: On the Role of Presupposition in Pseudo-Defenses of Free Speech on Campus %M doi:10.63466/jci05020015 %U https://jci.jams.pub/article/5/2/300 %X Some celebrated defenses of free speech, academic freedom, and open inquiry rest on anti-free speech presuppositions. This paper offers an analysis of these pseudo-defenses of campus free speech and explains how they each threaten to undermine their own goals in the long run. The paper closes with a recommendation for a relatively easy fix.