The Role of Medium in Confronting Controversial Figures

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i often have to think about giving a large platform and having a conversation with very controversial figures. You can normalize this person and in so doing create enormous harm well see i don't see it as normalizing i see it as exposing if more people had taken one come seriously Franklin Roosevelt would have acted much sooner he only got us into the war when the japanese made the mistake of attacking Pearl Harbor. Jeffrey Epstein was pretty close to MIT and Harvard and Harvard um and your reality reality actually means something yeah but from that point on we're afraid to say it do we want to make people think that we live in a world where those words are not used where those animal cities don't exist

Harvey Silverglate is a free speech advocate, co-founder of FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Expression, and author of several books on freedom of speech and criminal justice. He is running for Harvard Board of Overseers on a platform of free speech. If you’re a Harvard Alumni, please consider voting for him by Tue, May 16, 5pm ET: https://www.harvey4harvard.com/ballot Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(06:23) – Freedom of speech
(28:04) – Bureaucracy in Universities
(44:18) – Clash of ideas
(47:56) – Public education is broken
(59:33) – Jeffrey Epstein
(1:12:26) – Freedom of thought and liberal arts
(1:23:30) – Interviewing controversial people
(1:27:14) – Alan Dershowitz
(1:30:28) – Donald Trump
(1:37:27) – FBI
(1:45:52) – Criminal justice system
(1:48:20) – Advice