Harvey Silverglate

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Lex Fridman Podcast · #377 – Harvey Silverglate: Freedom of Speech · 16 May 2023 podcast

name the building after you.

I think they have a right to do that.

Well, I have a problem with universities making morals tests of donors.

because not every donor is as bad as Epstein, but some of the donors made their money in industry by being rapacious, by paying low wages, by exploiting people.

So that's why I say I would not give him naming rights.

I think the university has the autonomy to not give naming rights to

But I think that giving morals tests to donors is a Pandora's box.

Money is essential to run a university.

One of the reasons it's essential is because the university is artificially

artificially requires huge amounts of money, and that's probably because of the administrative army that they support.

And they would be less dependent on the Jeffrey Epsteins of the world if they didn't have

So it's sort of all part of the same circle.

And as I said, I am flexible enough to say that I don't think I would name a building after somebody who is truly evil.

I think university has the,

has the right to limit the naming rights for a donor.

If I was an absolutist, I would not even say that.

I'm not an absolutist.

I have my limits.

And that's one of them.

The Jeffrey Epstein Biological Laboratory, it's a little bit much.

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