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I am frightened that the graduates of what are supposed to be the leading schools of law in our nation have so little understanding of the underpinnings of Wester Liberal Law Codes.

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Although Martinez REALLY stepped up to the plate and respected Free Speech 🎤

Michael Mohr

‘Sincere American Writing’

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No place benefits from an ideological monopoly. Not Stanford, not the state it's in, not the state I'm in which is quite red. Life requires balance to prevent the excesses of a one-party rule. I doubt this happens at Stanford any time soon, or at the other institutions plagued by group think and forced conformity. Law firms and judges read news accounts, too. It's hard to imagine the ones who are not similarly captured wanting to introduce people like the ones who protested into their ranks.

The pendulum is eventually going to swing in the other direction and it has already begun doing so. The thing with pendulums is that the rebound never stops in the middle; it typically goes to about the same point on the other side, not that I think Stanford is in any danger of becoming a bastion of right-wing thought. Still, some course correction is inevitable, particularly if enrollment numbers start to drop. Already, the utility of college itself is coming into question. A host of fields in the skilled trades pay well, are always in demand, and offer career opportunities without crushing debt. Others are turning to the community colleges for basic-level courses and sparing themselves from some of the antics of indoctrination camps.

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It might need it. But it's not going to get it.

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The law schools need to hire conservative professors so as to achieve a proper intellectual balance. Every university receives government funds and they should be forced to do so under the penalty of forefeiting government support. The law mandates that both sides in a case be heard before a decision is made. Both sides need to be heard at law schools too.

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I don't believe the liberal-conservative distinction holds anymore. IMO the divide is between intolerant authoritarians and people who value the freedoms enshrined in the Constitution.

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Stanford is one of the most demoralized DIEvy League “elite” universities: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-get-into-harvard-part-3

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Wanted to share:

"Ibram X. Kendi says a backlash has ‘crushed’ the nation’s racial reckoning. But there’s one reason he remains hopeful"

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/18/us/ibram-kendi-racial-reckoning-blake-cec/index.html?utm_source=pocket_saves

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On the national stage, are there any conservatives left who haven't gone around the bend? Ever since Barry Goldwater, they all seem to have drunk from the poisoned cup that addles their brains, poor devils. To them the Constitution is a mere inconvenience.

If they were to rise to the top they might very well form a circular firing squad, trying to be the last person standing, emperor of the carnage left behind, worse than the Mad King George of England.

Hello, expediency, goodbye democracy. Even Trunp admirer Netanyahu has guzzled from that cup. Pray the Israelis in the streets defeat his aim to scuttle their judiciary. Do the Rockefellers even recognize the party they once supported? Would Bob Dole? Chuck Percy?

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I loved this episode! Both David and Spencer are generous and thoughtful people. Thank you!

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Absolutely. And more libertarians like me. :P

Academia is obsessed with Marxists/Postmodernists.

https://unskool.substack.com/p/academias-infatuation-with-racist

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