Fellows with conservative think tank at Stanford fire back after attempt to investigate them fails

[PeteS in CA]

Fellows with conservative think tank at Stanford fire back after attempt to investigate them fails

https://www.thecollegefix.com/fellows-with-conservative-think-tank-at-stanford-fire-back-after-attempt-to-investigate-them-fails/

A trio of fellows at Stanford’s Hoover Institution has fired back at an attempt by other faculty members to investigate the institution for making, in their words, “a travesty of honest intellectual debate.”

“If Hoover fellows continue to be targets for character assassination, it will be clear to us what the true nature of free speech at Stanford has become—and not only to us,” wrote Hoover fellows Victor Davis Hanson, Scott Atlas and Niall Ferguson in The Stanford Review this week.

In a presentation to the Stanford Faculty Senate on February 11, Stanford professors Joshua Landy, Stephen Monismith, David Palumbo-Liu and David Spiegel gave a presentation in which they harshly criticized statements made by Hoover fellows in the past year, arguing the conservative-leaning Hoover Institution’s relationship with Stanford damaged the school’s reputation.
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The professors asked for “an impartial committee to be appointed by the Committee on Committees to delve deeper into the relationship between the Hoover and Stanford.”

Ultimately, the motion was amended to simply require “increasing interaction” between Stanford Provost Persis Drell and Hoover Director Condoleezza Rice.
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While the attempt to investigate Hoover failed, the trio wrote that the presentation “still succeeded in maligning us as individuals.”

“The accusations against us three last week were as various as they were untrue,” wrote the fellows. “And all were presented regardless of clear and published evidence to the contrary.”
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... (Hanson, Atlas, and Ferguson) ... objected to “a group of professors’ deliberate misuse of the Faculty Senate and the student newspaper to act as purveyors of their defamation.”

“In addition to harming the reputations of eminent scholars, the ongoing, multi-year campaign by certain faculty members against the Hoover Institution at large—which is patently ideological in its motivation—risks doing considerable collateral damage to Stanford University,” they wrote.

The fellows instead went on offense against Palumbo-Liu, a comparative literature professor who in 2017 formed a new “Campus Antifascist Network” — a name, they note, which is “not accidentally similar to the nationwide ‘Antifa’ movement.”

[mountaineer]

Leftists attempt to silence opposing views. Lather, rinse, repeat.

[mountaineer]

 Published on March 5, 2021
A Cardinal Sin
written by Niall Ferguson   

I was brought up to think of a university as a haven for free thought and free inquiry; a place where established scholars and students communicate ideas, in both directions; a place where old thoughts and new are subjected to rigorous examination.

I was therefore appalled by the accusations made against me at a live-streamed Stanford University Faculty Senate meeting on February 11th and published online by Joshua Landy, David Palumbo-Liu and two other faculty members. I was included in a group of some half-dozen Hoover fellows who were said to have “abused” the position of the Institution and “quite possibly, contributed to significant public harm.” Landy expressed astonishment that I am “still on the roster” and that Stanford somehow failed “to publicly censure” me.  ...

Landy made no effort to contact me before making his accusations. He based his claims on a 2018 article in the student newspaper, the Stanford Daily, a piece that was not made any more true by its being replicated elsewhere, and he ignored my own published refutation. An elementary understanding of context, not to mention prudence, might have led someone levelling such an accusation to acknowledge that his target had publicly rebutted the allegations against him. To repeat a false allegation is bad enough. To repeat it as if it is unchallenged fact is unacceptable, whether as a matter of fairness to a colleague, or of good academic practice. ...

The important point is not that I have been vitriolically criticized, with repeated omissions of my side of the story, in defiance of basic journalistic standards.  ...

Read more at Quillette

[Hoodat]

Niall Ferguson is brilliant.

[catfish1957]

“a travesty of honest intellectual debate.”

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Truth is honest politcal debate offically died January 6, 2021.

Anything deviating from the left narrative is now considered sedition.   I used to think our differences could be worked out peacefully.  I am thinking that less and less every day.