How can we create a radically different atmosphere at American
universities? Easy, says historian Niall Ferguson of Stanford
University's Hoover Institution--have meaningful rules about free
speech, and ensure that they’re upheld. As with humans, as with
institutions: It’s all about incentives. Ferguson discusses the current
state of free speech on American campuses and how the new University of
Austin when it opens hopes to safeguard freedom of speech. The
conversation shifts then to the war in the Middle East. Ferguson draws
on his work on the biography of Henry Kissinger and compares the present
moment for Israel to the Yom Kippur War and the role Kissinger played in
1973.
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