Harvey Silverglate

I do.

But I like to know who the insulters are.

Because it gives you a deeper understanding of human nature.

Yeah.

And usually, by the way, my experience has been that the insulters have generally not been as smart as the people they've insulted.

And that's probably one of the reasons they insult them, because they feel inferior.

Yeah.

I mean, I'm not trying to be a psychoanalyst here, but a lot of the people who are the haters are pretty low down on the intellectual scale.

First of all, I have a prediction that in about five years, they're going to probably change the name because Overseers reminds people of the slavery era.

And we're in such a politically correct era now that the English language is being restricted, corrupted is the way I put it.

because certain words are forbidden.

We have some problems in this country, and I think part of the problem is the educational system has lost the sense of what academic freedom and free speech are all about.

And I think it's essential that the educational system begin to take more seriously what free speech and academic freedom really are.

That's why I'm running for the Harvard Board of Overseers.

Harvard has done fairly well under the presidency of Lawrence Backhow.

I have had a couple of meetings with Backhow.

I like Backhow.

I have donated to Harvard a print of my late wife, took a picture of Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsberg when the Rolling Thunder Review got to Harvard Square.

And it's sort of an iconic photograph.

She called it the music lesson because it's got Dylan teaching Ginsberg how to play the guitar.