Stanley Fish in Conversation with Ilan Stavans at Amherst College

Is Truth Doomed in the Age of Trump? And Is Free Speech in Peril?
llan Stavans, the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities and Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College, joined Stanley Fish, American literary theorist, legal scholar and author, for a discussion about free speech on college campuses.
Stanley Fish is the Floersheimer Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Yeshiva University and is a world-renowned literary theorist and legal scholar. Professor Fish’s literary theory has been particularly associated with neopragmatism, where practice is advanced over theory, and with the interpretive relationships between literature and law.
Ilan Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring Professor in Humanities and Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. He is an internationally known, award-winning cultural critic, linguist, translator, public speaker, editor, short-story writer, and TV host, whose New York Times best-selling work focuses on language, identity, politics and history.

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One may be aghast at the level of wealth inequality but who would reasonably expect someone else to eschew defending what they have? A person must negotiate a compromise between beliefs and the possibilities available in the time and place wherein he/she exists.

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July 25, 2016 In the NYT Opinion column, Stanley Fish writes "Professors, Stop Opining About Trump" (Uh huh, an opinion section, where he posts an opinion, opining against opining...the bipolar one-man comedy only begins at the title), in which he takes the opposing view to presentation of opinions in this fashion, AS HE HIMSELF THEN DOES. Take a moment and check it out. No need to argue against his points here....his own words do it best.