'Nevertheless, our discussion—a discussion to forbid discussion, which carried the day—was ahead of its time.

'It seemed to anticipate the intolerance for dissent that characterizes at least some quarters of today’s left.'

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[Eugene Volokh] Yascha Mounk and Eboo Patel on Pluralism ift.tt/8tJMF1S

Eboo Patel to Yascha Mounk on Persuasion about what’s gone wrong with the way #US colleges and universities frame questions about pluralism: “What's happened is an interesting critique morphed into a paradigm which then shifted into a regime.” persuasion.community/p/patel2?r=1ej…

Today, Shashi Tharoor's wonderful essay on the fundamental liberalism of Hinduism for @TheUnPopulist now at Persuasion. Don't miss it:
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ICYMI: drawing the line between speech and harassment in campus protests. My latest at Persuasion

'Strong-arm police tactics should be the response of last resort, especially for rule violations that are not seriously disruptive or threatening.'

There is a fine line between protected speech and targeted harassment on campus, argues Cathy Young 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱.

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'However illegal and outrageous it may be to block people’s passage on a college campus, comparing this to '1939, when Nazi’s (sic) blocked Jewish students from entering Vienna University' is outrageously hyperbolic.'

Cathy Young 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱

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'When does protected speech in public spaces cross the line into unlawful conduct?

'And when does political speech about Israel/Palestine on campus cross the line into antisemitism?'

Cathy Young 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 on the line between protected speech and harassment:

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'The only way to work toward true cohesion is to make it clear to all citizens—no matter what faith they observe or groups they belong to—that certain rights and values are non-negotiable.'

We must resist theocratic encroachment, writes Matt Johnson.

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“Find people who you don't understand and don't agree with, and then scream at them—I just don't think that's what the default mode should be on any campus.” My interview with Yascha Mounk on Persuasion persuasion.community/p/patel2

'The only way to work toward true cohesion is to make it clear to all citizens—no matter what faith they observe or groups they belong to—that certain rights and values are non-negotiable.'

We must resist theocratic encroachment, writes Matt Johnson.

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'Of course, markets and profits remain ubiquitous—indeed, markets and profits were ubiquitous under feudalism too—they just aren’t running the show anymore.'

Read an excerpt by Yanis Varoufakis:

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'Watching these media stories, I began to get an uncomfortable feeling, a feeling that I was participating in a terrible exploitation, the exploitation of half-baked children.'

Dear Media: please stop exploiting the college protests.

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New from me at Persuasion on the campus #protests , harassment and free speech

'Just the other day, a friend who runs one of India’s leading media outlets told me it was best to just sit back and 'enjoy the election. Who knows when we might have the next one.''

There are no surprises in this Indian election, writes Rashmee Roshan Lall.

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'The truly historic disruption was to automate capital’s power [...] to turn all of us, cloud proles and everyone else, into cloud serfs in the direct (unremunerated) service of cloud capital, unmediated by any market.'

Yanis Varoufakis:

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'Social cohesion won’t be secured by surrendering liberal principles to whichever illiberal groups yell the loudest.'

Liberal societies must do much more to stand up to religious intolerance, argues Matt Johnson.

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'One can almost feel the reporters’ orgasms building as they report from 116th Street by Columbia, or outside the gates of Yale [...] fixing their hair for the camera whose dead gaze makes them feel something like love.'

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'Putting aside for a moment the question of who is doing what to whom, the question I most found myself asking as I watched these newsclips was this:

''Who gives a fuck what college kids think?''

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'One can almost feel the reporters’ orgasms building as they report from 116th Street by Columbia, or outside the gates of Yale [...] fixing their hair for the camera whose dead gaze makes them feel something like love.'

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