Stanford Historian Encouraged Conservative Students to Gather ‘Opposition Research’ on Liberal Student Leader

A Stanford University (CA) historian told conservative student leaders to conduct “opposition research” against a liberal student leader, according to emails from February obtained by The Stanford Daily, the campus newspaper.  In the emails, Niall Ferguson, a senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, told two conservative student activists, John Rice-Cameron and Max Minshull, to investigate Michael Ocon, a progressive student leader. At the time, Ferguson held a leadership post in Cardinal Conversations, a program he had helped create in order to foster diverse perspectives on the campus.