The University's Obligation to Protect Academic Freedom

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i think the university has an absolute absolute not relative not worried that absolute road or obligation to protect the academic freedom of even the most controversial faculty members. You can imagine out on a university campus you have more people who are outliers than you do in the general population and those outliers have to be protected, he says. It doesn't matter if they're considered racist whether they're considered obnoxious um it doesn'tmatter if you can't if you if you can’t have freedom of thought on the college campuses where can you go? We lost as a society were lost and as a educational institution no longer educate they will indoctrinate we have some of the more controversial faculty in the world

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