[OutsiderFan]

Is Atlas a tenured professor?  If he is an employee at Hoover Institute, he can be fired at any time for any reason as an at-will employee. 

OF, do you have any idea at all how hard it is to fire an at-will employee when that employee can claim (in this case correctly) it was based on political speech? Especially if the employer has deep pockets.

It's real simple. "You are fired."  If Atlas wants to sue, that's his right.  But the university shouldn't be basing its actions on money. It should be basing them on moral principles and doing what is right.

Atlas would not be being fired for political speech. He'd be being fired for advocating people be harmed. It is tragic how so many people have come to justify anything goes in the name of protecting people's rights to do things that destroy us. We can protect the right to do and say stupid things until bodies start piling up and anarchy reigns. Is that what we want?

A society without any guardrails or fail-safes is doomed to failure.  As the Framers said "without virtue there can be no liberty." Are we OK with failing as long as we allowed it to happen by countenancing people's right to engage in behavior destructive to society?  Seriously, what is the difference between Jim Jones and Scott Atlas? Would y'all be OK with Jim Jones being employed by Hoover Institute if he survived the Jonestown massacre?

[OutsiderFan]

Is Atlas a tenured professor?  If he is an employee at Hoover Institute, he can be fired at any time for any reason as an at-will employee. 

OF, do you have any idea at all how hard it is to fire an at-will employee when that employee can claim (in this case correctly) it was based on political speech? Especially if the employer has deep pockets.

It's real simple. "You are fired."  If Atlas wants to sue, that's his right.  But the university shouldn't be basing its actions on money. It should be basing them on moral principles and doing what is right.

Atlas would not be being fired for political speech. He'd be being fired for advocating people be harmed. It is tragic how so many people have come to justify anything goes in the name of protecting people's rights to do things that destroy us. We can protect the right to do and say stupid things until bodies start piling up and anarchy reigns. Is that what we want?

A society without any guardrails or fail-safes is doomed to failure.  As the Framers said "without virtue there can be no liberty." Are we OK with failing as long as we allowed it to happen by countenancing people's right to engage in behavior destructive to society?  Seriously, what is the difference between Jim Jones and Scott Atlas? Would y'all be OK with Jim Jones being employed by Hoover Institute if he survived the Jonestown massacre?