Ep. 201: Crisis on Campus - X Space recording
from So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast
by FIRE
Published: Tue Dec 12 2023
Show Notes
Nico and FIRE President & CEO Greg Lukianoff appeared on an X Space to discuss the fallout from the recent congressional hearing on anti-Semitism involving Harvard President Claudine Gay, MIT President Sally Kornbluth, and former Penn President Liz Magill, who resigned last week following backlash over her testimony.
Timestamps
0:00- Introduction
1:53 - History of FIRE
5:40 - MIT/Harvard/Penn presidents’ testimony
- How speech codes are abused and conflict over the definition of genocide
- Penn “water buffalo” incident
- Will universities take the wrong lesson from these hearings?
- Double standards on campus
- Standards for hostile environment harassment, Title VI
- Is there a university that is currently handling the situation well?
- Institutional neutrality
- Guidance for donors
- The mission of the university
- College admissions and political litmus tests
- Faculty viewpoint diversity
- The path forward
Show notes
The Canceling of the American Mind
FIRE’s College Free Speech Rankings
Richard Berthold (“anyone who can blow up the pentagon has my vote”)
Student arrested for true threats at Cornell
Skokie case (neo Nazi protest in Illinois)
The Eternally Radical Idea (Greg’s Substack)