Transscript of the Larry Summers talk on free speech university campuses @allin All In Podcast Summit in 1,5 speed.

Look vigorous argument in which all ideas can be put forward and in which no idea gains its authority from who said it or some fashion rather than its merit in open debate.

That is the essence of liberal society. That is the essence of great universities at their best. It is the essence of a great university at its best that when I was president of Harvard and I was teaching a freshman seminar, some freshman, some freshman could come in and read my paper and explain how it was kind of an interesting paper by President Summers, but it was really pretty completely confused. That was a fantastic thing. He wasn't right, but it was a fantastic.

It was a fantastic thing. And yet, so much of what we should be able to argue about and discuss is off limits. Some of that is the speakers who get this invited, and that's terrible. But much more of it is a culture that there are only certain views you're allowed to have on questions about identity, that there are only certain question views you're allowed to have on market and redistribution that there are only certain question views you're allowed to have on how children should be raised. There shouldn't be any views you're not allowed to have.

Academic freedom should be an absolute.

But academic freedom does not mean freedom from criticism, freedom from debate, freedom from challenge. That is is the essence of the most successful human institutions.

And our universities should be modeling and demonstrating that rather than leading a charge as it too often seems they are towards an orgy of mutual selfregard, respect and care, rather than getting closer to the truth in the most excellent way.

Ladies and gentlemen, Larry Summers.