https://fora.tv/live/iframe?streamid=994
Still trying to get embedded video set up here, but if I can’t, you’ll be able to click through to this site to watch tonight’s Intelligence Squared debate on the question of whether liberals are stifling intellectual diversity on campus.
The debate is at six o’clock tonight at George Washington University in Washington, DC. I’ll be paired with professor Jeremy Mayer arguing the “against” side, while Greg Lukianoff of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education and Kirsten Powers of Fox News will be arguing “for.”
If you do watch live, I encourage you to follow along on Twitter — the hashtag is #IQ2USLive.
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February 24, 2015 at 8:05 pm
Perr5
Angus, I think you were great in that debate.
If I remember right, Greg Lukianoff was talking towards the end about how university professors said they would feel some inclination to hire, from among equally qualified job candidates, one who was politically liberal rather than one who was politically conservative. I think he was also for student groups being allowed to stipulate that their leaders be people who are sympathetic to the founding mission of each group (for example, Christian groups being allowed to stipulate that their leaders be Christians, to prevent the hijacking of the group). If, in the big picture of Western history, universities are a liberal phenomenon, then is there a possibility that GL’s position was a bit self-contradictory? Or, more pointedly, is intelligible to ask: why should universities allow themselves to be hijacked by conservatives? In this stifling of intellectual diversity, is it that the original liberalism of the university project has “gone too far,” or is it that universities have been re-infected by conservatism?