The Economics of Academic Freedom with Niall Ferguson, Tyler Cowen, and John H. Cochrane

Stanford Academic Freedom Nov 4-5

[@RossmannSJ]

Tyler is the best. Thanks for the link, Rob Henderson.

[@charlesdavis3802]

Props to John Cochrane's teammates for making a truly great conference. Please make the videos and audio as good as you can. I believe this conference will be the source of many classic clips ranging from 2 minutes to two hours. I hope our grandchildren can look back on this moment- the moment of pushing back. Stanford itself has not been worthy of its reputation as a great and noble university. It still has my admiration and gratitude but it has failed as a defender of the Enlightenment.

[@slappyhappy14231]

It was nice to see Gad Saad in the background, lots of important people there at the conference.

[@epic6434]

Well it's a good thing they aren't on skidrow with the not so important people 😂

[@stevenlightfoot6479]

Agree, its only by building new institutions that we can change what is going on.

[@johnwilhelm385]

That's a good point about state universities.....

[@nathanngumi8467]

Very educative discussion!

[@jimsnow8004]

In good mission planning and execution, you ALWAYS build in a debrief at a specific time and pay the lessons learned forward into further planning. That creates an ongoing culture of innovation. We have limitations such as mandatory elections every four or five years and an expiry date on collective agreements. That's a mechanism for getting rid of stupidity, irrelevance or sloth at regular intervals. Death does the same thing. Maybe create a mandatory point in time (10 years?) where the organization must show proof of value or be collapsed?

[@MrVvulf]

With that rule set you'd probably remove about 70% of the federal government in 20 years or less. Not that I'd complain.

[@stevenlightfoot6479]

Love this, although I would not use the Establishment term for DIE. The Establishment uses DEI (for obvious reasons), opponents of DIE should always use DIE.

[@MrVvulf]

The audio for this upload is very low.

[@intlprofs]

yes it is

[@intlprofs]

audio remains the biggest obstacle to podcasts etc.

[@luposolitario501]

Could it be that some antiwestern entities are financially supporting the woke ideologists? May be not directly. We have already heard of Cambridge analytica during Brexit, of tic toc, of google collaborating with the chinese, of Quatari capital financing some LGBTQ chanel.

[@epic6434]

The further away they can distance themselves from radicals the more power they keep for themselves while those who take the mark wander around as if they live normal lives 😂

[@coe3408]

How to spot an American: suit and trainers.