The Long Game cover image

The Stanford Free Speech Incident with David Lat

The Long Game

CHAPTER

The Importance of Free Speech

On page three, she says the university is a speaker with its own First Amendment rights. She talks about four essential freedoms to determine for itself on academic grounds who may teach and how it shall be taught. I thought that was just a very interesting assertion of institutional privilege. But elsewhere in her memo, she says, "The university is the home and sponsor of critics"

00:00
Transcript
Play full episode

Remember Everything You Learn from Podcasts

Save insights instantly, chat with episodes, and build lasting knowledge - all powered by AI.
App store bannerPlay store banner