The “classical” stands for “fascist”
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A thing that actually exists is a conference on “academic freedom” at which the keynote speaker is…Peter Thiel. The rest of the lineup is as you’d expect:
I assume Niall Ferguson’s talk will foreground his valiant efforts to get people to dig up dirty on an undergraduate student whose politics he didn’t like, and also his “subtle game of grinding them down on the committee” they were both on.— Kieran Healy (@kjhealy) October 19, 2022
Anyway, what better exemplifies the best of the Classical Liberal Tradition—from the keen empirical eye of an Adam Smith to the startlingly open mind of a Jeremy Bentham—than a Keynote from the guy who regrets women getting the right to vote and crushed a gossip site he disliked.— Kieran Healy (@kjhealy) October 19, 2022
Meanwhile, rising to the defense of Thiel and his fellow rich Putinist buddies, Lanny Davis has decided to provide evidence that he’s still alive, at least in the physical sense:
Even by Lanny Davis standards, though, saying you stand with Peter Thiel to fight for free expression is notably depraved https://t.co/rAQZkbvQuX— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca) October 20, 2022
The man can always find a new way to debase himself, give him that.