This is the Libertarian Podcast from the Hoover Institution. I'm your host Tom Church,

and I'm joined, as always, by the Libertarian Professor Richard Epstein.

Richard is the Peter and Kirsten Bedford senior fellow

here at the Hoover Institution.

He's the Lawrence A Tish Professor of Law at NYU and he's also a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago.

Richard, how are you? I believe you're in Chicago now, aren't you?

I'm in Chicago now and at least on my side of the midway to the south it is peace

and calm and the law school operates like an academic institution I'm happy to say.

I was going to say I think University of Chicago has had a more measured level of campers protest and perhaps response by the administration

unlike say Colombia unlike UCLA which let's let's start there shouldn't we shall we

Yeah, this is a completely different environment right and I'm not saying it's a different environment though

because Columbia and UCLA well Columbia has had had a students occupying their main quad for quite a while,

they're the president of Columbia has not been able to get them to dispel. They took

over one building that was cleared last night by NYPD it looks like right now

everything has been completely cleared out a couple 200 protesters so

arrested UCLA a little bit worse last night I want to say after news reports yesterday that a Jewish

protester you know a protester of the of the pro Palestinian protesters was was knocked

unconscious or beaten last

late last night I don't know what maybe a hundred Jewish students or or

local Jews showed up to get into it to basically have a riot on UCLA's campus against the pro-Palestinian

side and I don't believe it's been cleared as of this moment.

So I guess let's start here.

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