This article by Mallory Harris is on fire. It calls out the new President of Stanford (my alma mater) for speaking at a conference ostensibly on “academic freedom” where the repeatedly wrong organizers have repeatedly attacked and silenced those who called them out: stanforddaily.com/2024/10/03/f...
By standing with tenured faculty and powerful political operatives against contingent researchers and trainees at Stanford, President Jonathan Levin has already betrayed academic freedom, writes Mallo...
Thanks so much for sharing!!
The grift is strong now in Silicon Valley, & has found succor in quasi-libertarian and radical right-wing interest groups, dark VCs and billionaire personalities. This toxic combination of corruption and authoritarianism has penetrated The Farm and is corroding its mission. Urgent action is needed.
A “Misinformation, Censorship and Academic Freedom" panelist acted as the lead questioner during my interview I with Jim Jordan's "weaponization of government" committee... where Jordan attended for just long enough to ask menacingly about my NSF funding. Talk about threats to academic freedom.
I did not have high hopes for the new President but this is really bad. Thanks for sharing the article
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🤦♂️that is…disappointing.
How surprised are we that Levin served as Stanford's business school dean prior to his appointment as University president?