July 31, 2020 Joseph Raz, perhaps the most distinguished living legal philosopher writing in English (or perhaps any language), has sent a letter to Qiu Yong, the president of Tsinghua University, criticizing the firing of Xu Zhangrun (and stripping him of his pension rights) and asking that he be reinstated. The letter doesn’t mince words: he says that by its treatment of Xu, “Tsinghua makes the rest of the world think that it is not a worthy partner for academic co-operation. If there are any values that we shared and that made dialog and search for progress possible, you are no longer sharing in them.”
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