UC Berkeley hosted the May Day Conference on Free Inquiry sponsored by the Berkeley Liberty Initiative, or BLI, on Thursday. The discussion focused on academic freedom, threats to free inquiry and trust in universities.
Among the speakers and panelists was Sean Gailmard, campus professor in the political science department, who claimed that one theory that explains President Donald Trump’s recent attacks on universities is that faculty tend to lean “further left” than society while Trump is on the right of the political spectrum.