Greg Lukianoff

And when this got in front of a judge, he was exactly as skeptical of it as we thought he'd be.

I think he called this dystopian.

And it wasn't a close call.

Yeah.

Just the state doesn't have the power to simply say, to ban, you know, what professors in higher education teach.

Now, it gets a little more complicated when you talk about K-12 because the state has a role in deciding what public K-12 teaches because they're your kids.

It's taxpayer-funded.

And generally, the legislature is involved.

There is democratic oversight of that process.

Yeah, there definitely is in K through 12.

I mean, my kids go to public school.

I have a five and a seven-year-old.

And they have lovely teachers, but we have run into a lot of problems with education schools at fire.

And a lot of the graduates of education school end up being the administrators who clamp down on free speech in higher education.

And so I've been trying to think of positive ways to take on some of the problems that I see in K-12.

I thought that the attempt to just –

dictate you won't teach the following 10 books or 20 books or 200 books was the wrong way to do it.

Now, when it comes to deciding what books are in the curriculum, again, that's something the legislature actually can't have some say in, and that's pretty uncontroversial in terms of the law.

But when it comes to how you fight it, I had something that, since I'm kind of stuck with a formula, I called empowering of the American mind.

I gave principles that were inconsistent with the sort of group think and heavy emphasis on identity politics that, you know, some of the critics are rightfully complaining about in K through 12.