To the president of the University of Florida, he can go to Princeton and he can get which. Which he did, the best Civil War scholar, one of the best in America, offer him tenure. The board can approve tenure. We don't let the faculty block those decisions because they will use an ideological litmus test. As academia is right now, if you're openly conservative, openly classical even, you're going to have a hard time getting tenure at these places. (45:52–46:01)
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