Greg Lukianoff

I wrote a book called Freedom from Speech in 2014.

But it really was in 2017 when you started seeing this be directed at professors.

And when it comes to the number of professors that we've seen, you know, be targeted and lose their jobs, I've been doing this for 22 years and I've seen nothing like it.

So FIRE was founded in 1999 by Harvey Silverglate.

He is a famous civil liberties attorney.

He's a bit on the show.

He's the person who actually found me out in my very happy life out in San Francisco but knew I was looking for a First Amendment job.

I'd gone to law school specifically to do First Amendment.

And he found me, which was pretty cool.

His protege, Kathleen Sullivan, was the dean of Stanford Law School.

And this remains the best compliment I ever got in my life is that she recommended me to Harvey.

And since that's the whole reason why I went to law school, I was excited to be a part of this new organization.

The other co-founder of FIRE is Alan Charles Kors.

He's just an absolute genius.

He is one of the leading experts in the world on the Enlightenment and particularly about Voltaire.

And if any of your listeners do like the great courses, he has a lecture on Blaise Pascal.

And Blaise, of course, is famous for Pascal's Wager.

And I left it just so moved and impressed and with a depth of understanding of how important this person is.

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