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Ro Khanna: “We need to have a robust defense of academic freedom…”

Featuring: Ro Khanna, Democratic | U.S. House California, 17th Congressional District

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The Rubin Report: Immigration, Economic Policy, and Race with Congressman Ro Khanna

Published | Video Starts at 06:08

One, that institutions have failed us at the current moment, that people have been left economically stagnant. People feel that they don't. Their way of life isn't being respected. But at the second point was that We need to have a robust defense of academic freedom, freedom of thought, not having censorship. And I was. I've been concerned about the attacks on. On universities. I think now I understand that universities need to make sure that they have conservative voices and that there's robust debate and we can have that argument. (06:08–06:17)

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Asserts the need for defending academic freedom and opposing censorship.

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