Update February 26, : Stanford University released a statement earlier today clarifying that the protesters who disrupted the class were not Stanford students. The university is currently taking steps to ban the protesters from campus. In a video provided by a student in the class, a group of ten or so student-activists occupied the auditorium of the Hoover Institution where the class is held after Saez finished his remarks, just as Summers was about to begin speaking.
For over ten minutes, the protesters prevented Summers from explaining his opposition to the wealth tax. Larry Summers, who served as Secretary of the Treasury under the Clinton administration, director of the National Economic Council from , and as the President of Harvard University from , later explained why these rag-tag protesters found his mere presence so objectionable after they left the stage.
Over the past few years, Stanford has consistently had a dearth of right-wing perspectives platformed on campus. Despite containing vocal conservative voices in the Hoover Institution and an impressive alumni network of right-wing luminaries, most Stanford students have zero exposure to heterodox thought, which, in this case, apparently extends even to Obama-era Keynesian economists. This, in turn, creates the ideological intolerance which results in these protests.
He was later able to deliver his remarks after the protesters relented. Table of Contents. To support the Stanford Review's journalism and our advocacy for free speech on campus, please consider supporting us at this link.
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