Ep. 201: Crisis on Campus - X Space recording

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 


11:35 - How speech codes are abused and conflict over the
definition of genocide 


14:05 - Penn “water buffalo” incident 


16:20 - Will universities take the wrong lesson from these
hearings?


21:25 - Double standards on campus 


23:41 - Standards for hostile environment harassment, Title VI


26:43 - Is there a university that is currently handling the
situation well?


31:19 - Institutional neutrality 


38:29 - Guidance for donors  


41:51 - The mission of the university


47:35 - College admissions and political litmus tests 


51:20 - Faculty viewpoint diversity 


57:17 - The path forward 


 


Show notes


Show Transcript


The Canceling of the American Mind


Congressional hearing


FIRE’s College Free Speech Rankings


Kalven Report


“Mighty Ira”


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)


 Penn “water buffalo” case