Greg Lukianoff

I think Harvard did stand up for a couple, but mostly people got deplatformed there as well.

Well, here's the dirty little secret about the big change in 2014.

And Fire and me and Haight have been very clear that the big change that we saw on campus was that for most of my career, students were great on freedom of speech.

They were the best constituency for free speech, absolutely unambiguously, until about 2013, 2014.

And it was only in 2014 where we had this very, you know, kind of sad for us experience where suddenly students were the ones advocating for deplatforming and new speech codes, kind of in a similar way that they had been doing in, say, like the mid-80s, for example.

But here's the dirty little secret.

It's not just the students.

It's students and administrators, sometimes only a handful of them, though, working together to create some of these problems.

And this was exactly what happened at Stanford when Kyle Duncan, a Fifth Circuit judge, tried to speak at my alma mater.

A fifth of the class showed up to shout him down.

It was a real showing of what was going on that 10 minutes into the shout down of a Fifth Circuit judge – and I keep on emphasizing that because I'm a constitutional lawyer.

Fifth Circuit judges are big deals.

They're one level below the Supreme Court.

About a fifth of the school shows up to shout him down.

After 10 minutes of shouting him down, an administrator, a DEI administrator gets up with a prepared speech that she's written.

That's a seven-minute long speech where she talks about free speech.

Maybe the juice isn't worth the squeeze.

And we're at this law school where people could learn to challenge these norms.

So it's clear that there was coordination amongst some of these administrators.

And from talking to students there, they were in meetings, extensive meetings for a long time.