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Thucydides's avatar

On issues of speech, one shouldn't conflate what is legal (the First Amendment limits government regulation) and what is appropriate to a given institution. Universities are places which should be dedicated to disinterested intellectual inquiry, not settings for protests, marches, chants, let alone intimidation, insult, and violence, none of which serve the purposes of the institution. So banning such activities and ousting anyone responsible is not an impingement on free speech; such people can take their activities elsewhere.

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Thomas L. Hutcheson's avatar

Research is like venture capital. Most has not much utility, but some does.

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