This is the Libertarian Podcast from the Hoover Institution.

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

Here at Hoover, Richard is the Peter and Kirsten- Bedford Senior Fellow.

He's also the Lawrence A Test Professor of Law at NYU, and is a senior lecturer at the University

of Chicago.

Now, Richard, I'd ask how you are today, but I think I'll protest you instead. I don't actually mean that.

Today I'd like to talk about the nature of protest. To do that I want to start with

Israel, Iran, and then we'll get to Columbia, the university, not the country, and how far you're really allowed to go to protest what you believe to be an injustice.

So first, let's start with Israel and Iran because we appear to be on the knife's edge of another Middle Eastern war

So we haven't talked in a week or two lots happened in retaliation for an Israeli strike on an Israeli

or an Iranian general and a few others within Syria.

Iran sent hundreds of drones, I think dozens of rockets and a handful of ICPMs

at Israel from Iran, not from proxies within

Syria or Lebanon, but from Iran.

Israel and the United States and a coalition, Jordanians and others shot pretty much all of them down and then last night we found

out Israel retaliated with a strike of its own on several military targets

within Iran it's not clear that the attacks came from Israel, from the nation, like from the actual

physical place. It could have been other closer countries or within Iran. And Israel hasn't

taken official credit, I think, which has allowed it to de-escalate. So Richard my query

to you was retaliating from Israel the right thing to do. They were cautioned maybe

don't do this. Do you believe deterrence has been re-established and should we expect more

violence between these two countries?

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