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Harvey Silverglate

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#377 โ€“ Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech

Well, this is a liberal arts college, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#377 โ€“ Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech

Where from the clash of ideas, truth emerges.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#377 โ€“ Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech

Well, really?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#377 โ€“ Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech

This is what I call Harvard's

Lex Fridman Podcast
#377 โ€“ Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech

not so subtle means of candidate suppression, not voter suppression, candidate suppression.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#377 โ€“ Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech

And everybody can vote, but not everybody can run.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#377 โ€“ Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech

It ill becomes a liberal arts college where the clash of ideas will produce the truth.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#377 โ€“ Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech

We'll worry about the clash of ideas on the board of overseers.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#377 โ€“ Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech

The board of overseers is important.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#377 โ€“ Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech

It doesn't have the same power and authority as the Harvard Corporation, the so-called president and fellows of Harvard College, but it's very influential.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#377 โ€“ Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech

And very important, and it would be a great perch for me to try to exert influence for the university to get back to where it was before it was taken over by the administrators.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#377 โ€“ Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech

See, the alumni were educated in an era when these concepts were taken more seriously and before the administrators took over.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#377 โ€“ Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech

So I do think if I get my message out, I'm going to win the seat.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#377 โ€“ Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech

And if I win a seat,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#377 โ€“ Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech

I will have a great perch for trying to convince the real power, which is the Harvard Corporation, to do the things that I'm suggesting.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#377 โ€“ Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech

Get rid of 95% of the administrators, get rid of the speech codes, reduce tuition by 40%.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#377 โ€“ Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech

All of these salutary benefits.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#377 โ€“ Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech

Can you imagine if Harvard became the most affordable college in the United States?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#377 โ€“ Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech

It would have a tremendous effect on the whole country.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#377 โ€“ Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech

You can vote online or you can vote by paper ballot.