Ep. 1685 The Mob Claims Another One

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Steve Hsu is professor of theoretical physics at Michigan State University. Until recently, he was vice president for research and graduate studies. Despite over 1000 letters on his behalf including from top academics like Harvard's Steven Pinker, the administration caved to a Twitter mob and asked for Hsu's resignation. The reason is so preposterously flimsy that you just need to hear it for yourself. Sponsor: Good Morning Liberty is a daily podcast offering libertarian solution to the problems that afflict us. Check it out at:

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0:00.0	The Tom Wood Show Episode 1685.
0:03.4	Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.
0:07.9	Your daily dose of liberty education starts here.
0:11.5	The Tom Wood Show.
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0:28.2	Hi, everybody. Tom Woods here, delighted to be joined today by Steve Xu,
0:32.0	who is a professor of theoretical physics and professor of computational mathematics,
0:36.2	science, and engineering at Michigan State University,
0:38.9	where he was previously senior vice president for research and innovation.
0:42.7	Now, why previously?
0:44.2	Well, because of the very topic we're going to be covering today.
0:47.3	We're going to be talking about exactly what happened to him.
0:49.4	A Twitter mob came after him.
0:51.2	We're going to look at exactly why.
0:53.4	And he wound up being asked to resign from his position
0:56.9	and to return to being a professor.
0:59.4	And so I want to talk about exactly what happened, how it happened,
1:02.6	because it is sadly typical.
1:05.8	And there's a lot of this sort of thing going on from people who think of themselves
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