{"id":167693,"date":"2021-02-24T09:43:21","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T14:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=167693"},"modified":"2021-02-24T09:59:17","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T14:59:17","slug":"stanford-university-is-trying-to-silence-a-conservative-think-tank-because-the-liberal-community-disagrees-with-their-opinions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stanford-university-is-trying-to-silence-a-conservative-think-tank-because-the-liberal-community-disagrees-with-their-opinions\/","title":{"rendered":"Stanford University Is Trying To Silence A Conservative Think Tank Because The Liberal Community Disagrees With Their Opinions"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstanford-university-is-trying-to-silence-a-conservative-think-tank-because-the-liberal-community-disagrees-with-their-opinions%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=167693&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-857916554.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A group of Stanford University professors are trying to silence fellows of its Hoover Institution simply for being conservative.<\/p>\n<p>Hoover Institute fellows Scott Atlas, Niall Ferguson, and Victor Davis Hanson <a href=\"https:\/\/stanfordreview.org\/atlas-ferguson-hanson-stanford-free-speech\/\">wrote<\/a> of the attempt in The Stanford Review, the university\u2019s independent newspaper:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>In a recent meeting of the Stanford Faculty Senate, four professors (Joshua Landy, Stephen Monismith, David Palumbo-Liu and David Spiegel) presented and then subsequently\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.activatestanford.org\/actions\/report-on-the-hoover-institution-and-stanford-university\">published<\/a>\u00a0a farrago of falsehoods directed against various fellows of the Hoover Institution. Their complaint was, first, that the Hoover fellows\u2019 views were unapologetically conservative and, second, that they appeared antithetical to the majority of those of the Stanford community\u2014and were therefore properly subject to some sort of institutional and personal censure.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The three fellows wrote that the professors wanted to create a \u201cfaculty-controlled committee to investigate Hoover\u201d in an attempt to intimidate the institute into silence. Thankfully for the Hoover Institution, Stanford\u2019s president, provost, and former provost defended the think tank and academic freedom in general.<\/p>\n<p>Damage was still done, however, as the faculty members were able to manage \u201cmaligning\u201d the three fellows \u201cas individuals.\u201d The president, they wrote, left the impression that the fellows had \u201cbehaved inappropriately\u201d or \u201cspoken untruths.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the fellows wrote, this is not the first time Stanford has tried to cut ties with Hoover, a public policy think tank <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/\">focused on<\/a> \u201cpromoting the principles of individual, economic, and political freedom.\u201d In February 2019, for example, the university\u2019s faculty senate heavily criticized Hoover for being conservative, calling its ideological adherence to conservative principals \u201cintellectually bankrupt.\u201d This month, the student-run newspaper Stanford Daily attacked Hoover fellows \u201cwithout contacting them and giving them a reasonable amount of time to respond, in contravention of the paper\u2019s own\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stanforddaily.com\/our-policies-and-standards\/\">\u201cPolicies and Standards,\u201d<\/a> the fellows wrote. In November, the paper\u2019s editorial board <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stanforddaily.com\/2020\/11\/23\/its-time-for-stanford-to-separate-itself-from-hoover\/\">called<\/a> on Stanford \u201cto separate itself from Hoover.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the public attacks, the fellows wrote, they are also excluded from Stanford\u2019s Academic Council even though they are also fellows at Stanford. Hoover fellows are also not represented on the faculty senate \u201cunless they hold a joint appointment with a Stanford department,\u201d and are therefore not able to defend themselves from faculty attacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe accusations against us three last week were as various as they were untrue. And all were presented regardless of clear and published evidence to the contrary,\u201d the fellows wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The faculty members accused Atlas of violating \u201cthe American Medical Association\u2019s standards for ethical medical conduct\u201d while serving as an adviser to President Donald Trump, and accused him of being helping to cause the deaths of \u201ctens of thousands of Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose serious charges were based on straw-man arguments and gross distortions of Atlas\u2019s words, as pointed out by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2021\/02\/atlas-mugged\/\">others<\/a>. In misrepresenting Atlas\u2019s statements, Stanford faculty members intended to delegitimize him and his analysis,\u201d the fellows wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The faculty members accused Hanson of writing articles that \u201cformed the backdrop to an insurrection that cost 5 lives and threatened the lives of Representatives, Congressional staff, and the Vice President, as well as our constitutional democracy.\u201d Those articles actually pointed out issues with mail-in and early voting and changes to state voting laws \u2013 problems they say were also acknowledged by scholars at Stanford University Law School. Hanson, they wrote, never questioned the legitimacy of the election and condemned the January 6 riot at the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>Ferguson was accused of \u201cconspire[ing] with College Republicans to conduct \u2018opposition research\u2019 on a Stanford undergraduate.\u201d The fellows note that the conspiracy never happened and the research was never conducted.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the faculty members who launched the latest attacks against them, the fellows wrote, have previously advocated for free speech and diversity of viewpoints.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of Stanford University professors are trying to silence fellows of its Hoover Institution simply for being conservative. 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