When Professor Josh Blackman was stopped from speaking about “the importance of free speech” at CUNY law school, CUNY Law Dean Mary Lu Bilek insisted that disrupting the speech on free speech was free speech. Yet, that is still more than other law deans. What is notable is that Martinez did not even pledge to hold students accountable for stopping the speech by Judge Duncan. He also mocked surveys showing that conservative students are fearful of speaking freely in class, dismissing these students as “just… conservatives being sad that everyone else makes fun of them.” This trend is supported by anti-free speech websites like Above the Law where Editor Joe Patrice defended “predominantly liberal faculties” and argued that hiring a conservative professor is akin to allowing a believer in geocentrism to teach. Many schools have largely purged their ranks of conservative and libertarian faculty. They are getting these values from faculty members. That is roughly one out of four supporting violence. Another 23 percent believe violence can be used to cancel a speech. It found that sixty-six percent of college students think shouting down a speaker to stop them from speaking is a legitimate form of free speech. These students - and many faculty - voice a twisted view that silencing the free speech of others is a form of free speech.Ī chilling poll was released by 2021 College Free Speech Rankings after questioning a huge body of 37,000 students at 159 top-ranked U.S. In this case, it was a federal appellate judge but we have seen this type of “deplatforming” at other schools. This latest controversy highlights the fact that the identity of some of these students (including those on videotape) who disrupted a speaker at the law school are known to the school. They merely express regret that “staff members who should have enforced university policies failed to do so, and instead intervened in inappropriate ways that are not aligned with the university’s commitment to free speech.” Neither Tessier-Lavigne nor Martinez promise to hold these students accountable or to sanction Steinbach. I wrote earlier about the joint apology letter of Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Law School Dean Jenny Martinez. However, I am more interested in another aspect of the controversy. It was a highly ironic moment to be sure. Sibarium tweeted that “On Sunday, I identified board members of the Stanford National Lawyers Guild–one of the groups responsible for the posters–who in a public statement described the protest as ‘Stanford Law School at its best.’ A few hours later, the board demanded I redact their names.” However, Aaron Sibarium, a journalist for the Washington Free Beacon has said that a board member of the Stanford National Lawyers Guild, sent an email demanding the Free Beacon remove her name and those of other students from their reporting because it is threatening and dangerous. Student protesters reportedly published the names of students in the Federalist Society online as part of their cancel campaign. Circuit Court Judge Kyle Duncan was shouted down by law students and condemned by a law school dean for discussing his conservative judicial views. Due to the loss of so many of the primary sources on which Diogenes relied, his work has become the foremost surviving source on the history of Greek philosophy.There is an interesting development in the controversy at Stanford Law School where U.S. However, unlike many other ancient secondary sources, Diogenes Laërtius generally reports philosophical teachings without attempting to reinterpret or expand on them, which means his accounts are often closer to the primary sources. He also frequently focuses on trivial or insignificant details of his subjects' lives while ignoring important details of their philosophical teachings and he sometimes fails to distinguish between earlier and later teachings of specific philosophical schools. His reputation is controversial among scholars because he often repeats information from his sources without critically evaluating it. Nothing is definitively known about his life, but his surviving Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers is a principal source for the history of ancient Greek philosophy. Diogenes Laërtius was a biographer of the Greek philosophers.
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