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Bryan Caplan Interview’s Princeton Dissident Sergiu Klainerman

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The Ice Goober Doesn't Understand Academic Freedom

I think he's a very complicated- and I do think that he's a conflicted individual. He believes with half of his brain, he believes that academic freedom is very important. To the other half, he thinks that there are all these other things that have to do with social justice - so he has to square it somehow. There's squaring the circle where you intellectually believe two things and there's squaringThe circle where you wouldn't actually believe one thing, but that will get you fired and so you have to someway say something else. This would be the real goals. So restore the power of the faculty.

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