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This piece appears in response to Tuesday's article by Julia Steinberg on the Hoover Institution embracing wokeness.
After seven years as a resident senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, I have grown accustomed to attacks from left-wing professors on the Faculty Senate, denunciations in the Stanford Daily, and other irritants.
Comparative literature professor David Palumbo-Liu addresses the recent Faculty Senate meeting, which, he argues, inappropriately condoned Rupert Murdoch's spreading of misinformation about the 2020 presidential election. He writes, "It is remarkable to me how quickly, easily, and absolutely Tessier-Lavigne and Rice erase the fact that the 'speech' they are so passionately attached to protecting is speech that incited an attack against the democratic process and an assault on the peaceful transfer of power, one of the signal points of pride our country celebrates."
In an open letter to the the Director of the Hoover Institute, the President, the Provost and the Board of Trustees, 90 Stanford faculty members call for a public accounting of Rupert Murdoch's appointment to the Hoover's Board of Overseers. They write, "we wonder what kind of signal his presence sends to our students, who we are training to seek the truth, and to our colleagues on the faculty, who are constantly held to the highest standards of honesty, truth and responsible scholarship."