#377 – Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech

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Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

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🗓️ 16 May 2023

⏱️ 115 minutes

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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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OUTLINE:
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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

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0:00.0	The following is a conversation with Harvey Silverglate, a legendary feast-beach advocate,
0:04.6	co-founder of Fire, the foundation for individual rights and expression, and the author of several books
0:10.5	on the freedom of speech and criminal justice, including the Shadow University,
0:15.6	the betrayal of Liberty and America's campuses. Harvey is running to be on the Harvard board of
0:22.0	Overseas this year with the writing campaign, so you have to spell his name correctly,
0:27.3	Silverglate, promising to advocate for free speech and to push for reducing the size of Harvard's
0:34.4	administration bureaucracy. Election is over this Tuesday, May 16th at 5 p.m. Eastern. To vote,
0:41.4	you have to be Harvard alumni, so if you happen to be one, please vote online. It's a good way to
0:46.8	support freedom of speech on Harvard campus. Instructions how to do so are in the description.
0:53.6	As a side note, please allow me to say that since there are several controversial conversations
0:59.1	coming up, I tried to make sure that this podcast is a platform for free discourse where ideas are
1:04.8	not censored but explored, and if necessary, challenged in a thoughtful and pathetic way.
1:11.3	It's by having such difficult conversations, not by avoiding them, that we can begin to heal
1:16.4	divides and shed light on the dark parts of human history and human nature.
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