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The Libertarian

It Can Happen Here: The Ivy League and “Context Dependent” Antisemitism | Libertarian: Richard Epstein | Hoover Institution

The Libertarian

The Civitas Institute at the University of Texas at Austin

History, News, Politics

4.7994 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

“Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate the code of conduct or rules regarding bullying or harassment [at your university]. Yes or no?”

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0:00.0

This is the Libertarian Podcast from the Hoover Institution.

0:16.0

I'm your host Tom Church and I'm joined as always by the Libertarian Professor Richard Epstein.

0:22.0

Here at Hoover, Richard is the Peter and Kirsten Bedford senior fellow.

0:26.0

He's also the Lawrence A Tish Professor of Law at NYU,

0:29.0

and he's a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago.

0:33.0

Richard, there are three universities I just listed off there,

0:37.0

conspicuously missing from the University of Presidents who were hauled in front of Congress yesterday,

0:43.0

Presidents of MIT, Harvard, U Penn, others,

0:46.0

were summoned in front of Congress and grilled about anti-Semitism

0:50.0

on their campuses

0:52.0

and various pro-Palestinian rallies taking place disrupting classes and generally making Jewish students feel unsafe.

1:01.0

I'd love to know Richard, I'm not sure if you saw these clips of Congresswoman

1:05.4

Stefonic asking these these presidents a very basic question I'll ask it to you and

1:10.8

I'd love to get your answer and this is the question that it was

1:13.2

asked of each of them over and over does calling for the genocide of Jews

1:17.8

violate the code of conduct or rules regarding bullying or harassment at your university yes or no.

1:25.0

And I'd love to get your answer to that, Richard.

1:27.0

I'll give a yes answer to that question.

1:29.0

You would just stop there, yes?

1:31.0

Well, because I mean, I could say yes and why but you just

1:33.8

ask for the yes no question but look I mean the most important thing to do is to

1:38.4

understand how this kind of word salad game got played by the presidents.

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