Joe Lonsdale
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And then the board of trustees has been completely stacked with people who are either terrified of being controversial in public or on the side of the administrators. And so none of them are going to get fixed, which is why you got to build new ones. I mean, that's fine. You know what? These are somewhat broken. It's sad. Let's build new ones. You know, let's build new great ones.
And then the board of trustees has been completely stacked with people who are either terrified of being controversial in public or on the side of the administrators. And so none of them are going to get fixed, which is why you got to build new ones. I mean, that's fine. You know what? These are somewhat broken. It's sad. Let's build new ones. You know, let's build new great ones.
And then the board of trustees has been completely stacked with people who are either terrified of being controversial in public or on the side of the administrators. And so none of them are going to get fixed, which is why you got to build new ones. I mean, that's fine. You know what? These are somewhat broken. It's sad. Let's build new ones. You know, let's build new great ones.
That's what we're trying to do.
That's what we're trying to do.
That's what we're trying to do.
Someone has to buy Merriam-Webster with an LBO just so we can officially make it the word of the year because they're not going to do it themselves.
Someone has to buy Merriam-Webster with an LBO just so we can officially make it the word of the year because they're not going to do it themselves.
Someone has to buy Merriam-Webster with an LBO just so we can officially make it the word of the year because they're not going to do it themselves.
Remind me. I think I know which one.
Remind me. I think I know which one.
Remind me. I think I know which one.
Well, there's Conquest Law and there's Harding's Law, which is... Yeah, that's Sullivan. There's different ways of putting it. Basically, this is really interesting. And so another way of putting it, for some people, they say if you don't explicitly make an institution right-wing, it will get conquered by the left-wing. That's what a lot of people believe. And that tends to be what happens.
Well, there's Conquest Law and there's Harding's Law, which is... Yeah, that's Sullivan. There's different ways of putting it. Basically, this is really interesting. And so another way of putting it, for some people, they say if you don't explicitly make an institution right-wing, it will get conquered by the left-wing. That's what a lot of people believe. And that tends to be what happens.
Well, there's Conquest Law and there's Harding's Law, which is... Yeah, that's Sullivan. There's different ways of putting it. Basically, this is really interesting. And so another way of putting it, for some people, they say if you don't explicitly make an institution right-wing, it will get conquered by the left-wing. That's what a lot of people believe. And that tends to be what happens.
But I think it doesn't have to be quite...
But I think it doesn't have to be quite...
But I think it doesn't have to be quite...
so partisan is that like the goal of uatex is not to be a partisan institution and by the way it'd be a failure if it was a right-wing institution in the sense that there weren't i mean you want to have the smartest and best people there you want to be arguing with people who disagree with you in classes and with professors right it's not a healthy intellectual environment if if only one side dominates what you can do and this this is a little bit more controversial i guess but what you can do at the administrative level you could say we don't want to be conquered by
so partisan is that like the goal of uatex is not to be a partisan institution and by the way it'd be a failure if it was a right-wing institution in the sense that there weren't i mean you want to have the smartest and best people there you want to be arguing with people who disagree with you in classes and with professors right it's not a healthy intellectual environment if if only one side dominates what you can do and this this is a little bit more controversial i guess but what you can do at the administrative level you could say we don't want to be conquered by