{"id":17548,"date":"2020-09-22T13:33:28","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T18:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/?p=17548"},"modified":"2020-09-30T16:23:25","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T21:23:25","slug":"constitution-day-speaker-scholars-must-affirm-right-to-be-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/2020\/09\/constitution-day-speaker-scholars-must-affirm-right-to-be-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Constitution Day speaker: Scholars must affirm &#8216;Right to be Wrong&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Too often, campuses suppress rather than rebut arguments, threatening soul of academia, former high-ranking DoJ attorney says<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"UND Constitution Day 2020\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jZ_H9hyRHhU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the video that went viral last month, in which a crowd of protesters confronted at a woman sitting at a table outside a Washington, D.C. restaurant, demanding that she make a gesture of solidarity, there\u2019s not a college dean or faculty member in sight.<\/p>\n<p>But deans and faculty members still should watch such videos with alarm, suggested Jesse Panuccio, featured speaker at the UND School of Law\u2019s Constitution Day Celebration 2020.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s because one reason why such intimidating tactics have spread is that too many college leaders have acceded to the tactics\u2019 use on campus, Panuccio said. \u201cIndeed, we don\u2019t need to speculate about what will happen to society when universities abandon the inculcation of the values of free speech, rigorous debate and the Right to be Wrong,\u201d he said during his talk.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, he said, we just need to pull out our phones and review the video of the incident at the restaurant. \u201cThat is the America that our college campuses are ushering in by refusing to support and inculcate an appreciation for free inquiry and debate,\u201d Panuccio said.<\/p>\n<p>And \u201cthat is why the current academic movement that permits and encourages the silencing of opposing viewpoints is so urgently worrisome. \u2026 It threatens to deprive American society of a new generation of citizens who, like their forebears, share a deep, abiding commitment to free speech and the liberty it guarantees.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4>DoJ\u2019s former third-ranking official<\/h4>\n<p>Panuccio is a partner in the Boies Schiller Flexner law firm and former Acting Associate Attorney General of the United States. A graduate of Duke University and Harvard Law School, he\u2019s also a frequent speaker at events associated with the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, the prominent organization that, according to its website, \u201cis founded on the principles that the state exists to preserve freedom, that the separation of governmental powers is central to our Constitution, and that it is emphatically the province and duty of the judiciary to say what the law is, not what it should be.\u201d Its members often advocate for an originalist interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>At UND, Panuccio\u2019s Constitution Day talk was hosted by the Federalist Society student chapter at UND School of Law.<\/p>\n<p>Said Mike McGinniss, dean of the UND School of Law, \u201cI am very excited that the School of Law was able to share this great event in celebration of Constitution Day with our UND campus community, as well as with other NDUS institutions and many members of the North Dakota legal profession.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Panuccio gave an outstanding, inspiring presentation about the essential importance of the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment, particularly on college and university campuses. It was also gratifying that he specifically pointed to how highly UND stands out among today\u2019s universities with its powerful statements and strong policies that protect freedom of speech for everyone in the campus community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Panuccio titled his remarks, \u201cThe First Amendment and the Right to be Wrong.\u201d And over the course of his 50-minute talk, he elaborated, building a case that rested on a sequence of key claims:<\/p>\n<p>First, that free expression \u2013 the \u201cRight to be Wrong,\u201d the mechanism for self-correction that lets America learn from its mistakes \u2013 lies at the heart of the Constitution\u2019s unique-in-world-history success;<\/p>\n<p>Second, that the above norm as enshrined in the First Amendment is in retreat in the United States;<\/p>\n<p>Third, that a leading and vitally important segment of this retreat is taking place in academia;<\/p>\n<p>And fourth, that faculty members and university administrators must renounce this change, and instead coalesce \u2013 as has happened before in the 1,000-year history of the university \u2013 around the ideal of academic freedom.<\/p>\n<h4>The Right to be Wrong<\/h4>\n<p>Exactly 233 years ago, Panuccio noted Thursday, delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia signed their names to the &#8220;incredible charter\u201d that has governed us ever since.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHistory has shown our Constitution to be the most remarkable governing framework human society has ever devised,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Not coincidentally, a hallmark of American governance across those centuries has been \u201can appreciation for debate, for open discourse and for free thought,\u201d ideals enshrined in the First Amendment. But the history of those ideals stretches back even further, for they have been hallmarks of academic freedom \u2013 and the idea of the university \u2013 since at least 1155.<\/p>\n<p>That was the year of the <em>Authentica Habita<\/em>, or <em>Privilegium Scholasticum<\/em>. This was a document set forth by the Roman emperor Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa in response to a petition from scholars for protection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe edict celebrated the value of scholastic pursuit and explicitly protected scholars in pursuit of scientific inquiry,\u201d Panuccio said.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Authentica Habita<\/em> &#8220;helped establish the modern university as a place of free inquiry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Such was the history Thomas Jefferson drew upon when he founded the University of Virginia. Wrote Jefferson in a letter of 1820, \u201cthis institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With those words \u2013 \u201ctolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it\u201d \u2013 Jefferson was arguing for the Right to be Wrong, Panuccio noted. \u201cThese ideas \u2013 the freedom to speculate, to be wrong, and the freedom to refine and rebut speculation and error \u2013 lie at the very core of productive academic inquiry,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Along those same lines, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter once opined, \u201ca university ceases to be true to its own nature if it becomes the tool of Church or State or any sectional interest. \u2026 Dogma and hypothesis are incompatible, and the concept of an immutable doctrine is repugnant to the spirit of a university.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4>The Heckler\u2019s Veto and other suppressions<\/h4>\n<p>Unfortunately, dogma \u2013 immutable, inarguable doctrine \u2013 reigns supreme on too many of today\u2019s campuses, Panuccio said. And the Right for a speaker to be Wrong has evolved into a Right for listeners never to hear Wrong-think.<\/p>\n<p>At Middlebury in Vermont, student protesters violently shut down an event featuring an invited speaker. At Clemson, the Student Code of Conduct threatens students with punishment \u2013 even expulsion \u2013 if they speak in a way that offends. At William and Mary, activists shouted down an ACLU representative, who \u2013 ironically \u2013 was addressing free speech.<\/p>\n<p>There are countless other examples, suggesting that \u201cspeech suppression is playing out daily on campuses across the country,\u201d Panuccio said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOutrage culture has replaced inquiry culture on our campuses,\u201d he said. Moreover, \u201ceven tepid disagreement can be deemed hurtful and thus forbidden,\u201d as shown by the case of Erica and Nicholas Christakis of Yale. For their offense, in an email, of supporting free expression, the Christakises \u201cwere subjected to months of protests by students\u201d and ultimately resigned their student-life leadership posts.<\/p>\n<p>Codes of conduct are one means of enforcing the new orthodoxy. But UND\u2019s \u2013 to the University\u2019s great credit, Panuccio noted \u2013 does not: Students who find a speaker offensive are instructed to offer their own arguments in rebuttal, but not in a way that disrupts the original speech.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is exactly right,\u201d Panuccio said. \u201cKudos to the University of North Dakota for being one of the few institutions that embrace this fundamental idea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, the task before academia is for faculty and administrators at all universities to once again recognize the primacy of free expression, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I mentioned, academic freedom first took hold in 1155,\u201d when teachers demanded protection for scholarly inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is time for the community of scholars to do so again. It is time for members of the academy to again demand the Right to be Wrong, and to make the university the place where hypothesis reigns over dogma.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too often, campuses suppress rather than rebut arguments, threatening soul of academia, former high-ranking DoJ attorney says<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":17547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-17548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-law"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Constitution Day speaker: Scholars must affirm &#039;Right to be Wrong&#039; - UND Today<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.und.edu\/und-today\/2020\/09\/constitution-day-speaker-scholars-must-affirm-right-to-be-wrong\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Constitution Day speaker: Scholars must affirm &#039;Right to be Wrong&#039; - 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