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Atlas, Ferguson, and Hanson: On Free Speech at Stanford
What is the purpose of academic freedom?
Is it to allow all kinds of ideas to be expressed and explored, protecting even speech that people in the past considered hereticalâprotecting free expression that some people today would like to âcancelâ? Or is it to allow co-workers in the ideological minority to be personally and selectively disparaged with impunity?
The answer for some faculty at Stanford University would appear to be the latter.
In a recent meeting of the Stanford Faculty Senate, four professors (Joshua Landy, Stephen Monismith, David Palumbo-Liu and David Spiegel) presented and then subsequently published a farrago of falsehoods directed against various fellows of the Hoover Institution. Their complaint was, first, that the Hoover fellowsâ views were unapologetically conservative and, second, that they appeared antithetical to the majority of those of the Stanford communityâand were ther
A Triumphant Day in the Senate Share:
Yesterday evening, the Stanford Faculty Senate met and debated a resolution which sought to create a faculty committee to study the Universityâs relationship with the Hoover Institution. The faculty who proposed the resolution, led by Professor of Comparative Literature David Palumbo-Liu, gave a detailed presentation expressing their concerns, and delivered a litany of charges against current and former Hoover fellows for making what they call âa travesty of honest intellectual debateâ.
The resolution called for an ad hoc âimpartial committee.â As Professor Palumbo-Liu explained, the committee would have a âblank checkâ to study and critique the Hoover Institution and its relationship to Stanford, and to propose reforms. To be clear, the Faculty Senate has absolutely no jurisdiction over Hoover; that authority lies with the President and Trustees. But ignoring the jurisdictional question, we are
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