I’d Like An Argument Please

The Heterodox Academy, which is doing good work in trying to create space for viewpoint diversity in American universities, is holding an event they call Disagree With A Professor.

Please join the Heterodox Academy Campus Chapter at Stanford University for the inaugural Disagree with a Professor lunch event on Meyer Green on Tuesday, April 28th from 12:00pm - 1:15pm where you’ll be able to engage with different faculty about a variety of claims, including: 

• Mail-in voting was a bad idea. Everyone should vote in-person on Election Day. 
• Forget the Electoral College; we should abolish the Presidency. 
• We are less prepared for the next pandemic now than we were before COVID, despite significant advances in our ability to detect, analyze, prevent, and treat infectious disease. 
• Grading of students by the professor who teaches the class is biased. It should be eliminated or supplemented with evaluations by unaffiliated evaluators. 
• The world is a safer place in the 21st century than ever before. 
• Geography is the force that drives history.

Those sound like spirited topics! Naturally, however, I thought of this: