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, you have a lot of titles.

Here at Hoover, we call you the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow over at

NYU, you're the Lawrence A. T.H. Professor of Law, and I hear you're also a senior lecturer

at the University of Chicago. Now, Richard, it's been another week since Hamas

attacked, killed, and abducted Israeli citizens and we've had a week to think

about what comes next. We've had a week to see how world opinion has settled on the

matter of Hamas in Israel and how they're conducting this this war. We've had a

week to see how the media is covering it and I think you know you're on you're at

NYU I'm over here at Stanford we've had a week to see how students on

college campuses as well as administrators are responding to this

I'd look to know Richard for you who do you want to talk about first do you want to talk about the media response or do you want to talk about university responses?

Look I think I'd rather talk first about the university not not responses, but the university situation which has led to the

needy responses. And it's a very amazing kind of cap. I'm going to start with a simple comparison.

There was another hummus invasion of less severity

with a very prompt Jewish response in 2014.

And I simply do not remember any serious question of media coverage or university involvement in that case

which would strike you anything other than the usual disputes between two sides who

do not like each other but in this case, I think it's clear to say

that a series of one sentence, which was published

by a number of people at Harvard,

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