{"id":186240,"date":"2021-03-02T09:15:44","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T14:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=186240"},"modified":"2021-03-02T09:15:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T14:15:48","slug":"stanford-university-tries-fails-to-silence-a-conservative-think-tank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stanford-university-tries-fails-to-silence-a-conservative-think-tank\/","title":{"rendered":"Stanford University Tries, Fails To Silence A Conservative Think Tank"},"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\">20<\/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-tries-fails-to-silence-a-conservative-think-tank%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=186240&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\/03\/GettyImages-857916528.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Earlier this month, a group of Stanford University professors presented and published a memo accusing Hoover Institute fellows of being conservative, which they are, but argued they needed to be censured because the majority of the Stanford community disagreed with their views.<\/p>\n<p>It appears the professors\u2019 attempt to silence the Hoover fellows has failed, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/03\/01\/stanford-mobs-attempt-to-cancel-hoover-institution-scholars-fails\/\">according to The Federalist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite a months-long campaign of demonization directed at Victor Davis Hanson, Niall Ferguson, and Scott Atlas \u2014 amplified with support from The Stanford Daily \u2014 the assault ended without condemnation of the trio or Hoover,\u201d the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<p>As the three fellows <a href=\"https:\/\/stanfordreview.org\/atlas-ferguson-hanson-stanford-free-speech\/\">wrote<\/a> last week, Stanford\u2019s president, provost, and former provost defended the think tank and academic freedom in general.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of the public condemnation and silencing demanded by the Stanford professors, Provost Persis Drell and Hoover Institute director Condoleezza Rice were asked to \u201cto present a report to the body later this year about \u2018increasing interaction\u2019 between the university and the think tank,\u201d the Federalist reported.<\/p>\n<p>This is far from the \u201cfaculty-controlled committee\u201d the professor\u2019s wanted to \u201cinvestigate Hoover\u201d and its fellows.<\/p>\n<p>As the Federalist noted, this \u201cisn\u2019t a victory for academic freedom over the forces of groupthink repression.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRather, it\u2019s a demonstration of the vulnerability of the vast majority of scholars who dissent from leftist orthodoxy and aren\u2019t ensconced in a well-funded independent institution,\u201d the outlet wrote.<\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/stanford-university-is-trying-to-silence-a-conservative-think-tank-because-the-liberal-community-disagrees-with-their-opinions\">reported<\/a>, the professors\u2019 accusations were able to malign the three Hoover fellows. It is also not the first time Stanford has attempted to cut ties with Hoover, a public policy think tank\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/\">focused on<\/a>\u00a0\u201cpromoting the principles of individual, economic, and political freedom\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>In February 2019, for example, the university\u2019s faculty senate heavily criticized Hoover for being conservative, calling its ideological adherence to conservative principles \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>\u00a0the fellows wrote. In November, the paper\u2019s editorial board\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stanforddaily.com\/2020\/11\/23\/its-time-for-stanford-to-separate-itself-from-hoover\/\">called<\/a>\u00a0on Stanford \u201cto separate itself from Hoover.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>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.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The professors\u2019 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>They 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 \u2014 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>Finally, they accused Ferguson 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><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">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<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, a group of Stanford University professors presented and published a memo accusing Hoover Institute fellows of being conservative, which they are, but argued they needed to be &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274535,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GettyImages-857916528.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Stanford University Tries, Fails To Silence A Conservative Think Tank","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GettyImages-857916528.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Stanford University Tries, Fails To Silence A Conservative Think Tank","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}