Harvey Silverglate

Harvey Silverglate is a criminal-defense and civil-liberties litigator, columnist, book author, and co-founder of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.

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A World Without Affirmative Action

We need creative thinking and real problem solving to address inequality in education.

Harvey Silverglate

16 Jan 2023 · 6 min read

Bloated College Administration Is Making Education Unaffordable

Our campuses are stuffed with non-academic office workers. If elected to Harvard’s Board of Overseers, I‘ll propose firing most of them.

Harvey Silverglate

2 Nov 2022 · 4 min read

Science and Civil Liberties: The Lost ACLU Lecture of Carl Sagan

Around 1987, Sagan gave an uncannily prescient lecture to the Illinois state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.

Steven Pinker / Harvey Silverglate

1 Jul 2022 · 15 min read