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2/2: #CAMPUS: The fourth wave of university disruption. Peter Berkowitz, Hoover Institution.

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🗓️ 28 September 2024

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2/2: #CAMPUS: The fourth wave of university disruption. Peter Berkowitz, Hoover Institution.

Nassau Hall, Princeton

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0:00.0

This is CBSi on the world. I'm John Bachelor with Peter Berkowitz of the Hoover Institution

0:05.1

guiding me thanks to his real clear politics piece to a collection of short essays by educators

0:12.4

about the modern university that's gone off the rails to be

0:16.2

metaphorical. It's entitled which way the university a symposium on higher

0:21.3

education in the United States.

0:23.0

And I learned from John De Eulio

0:26.0

that this is the third wave of contest between those who are

0:32.0

displeased with the university's product and costs and

0:37.0

monoculture and the university who is defending itself because it's making money.

0:42.0

The first was William Buckley himself.

0:44.7

As I recall, he was an older Yale student at the time and was quite aggressive about an essay that he wrote to deliver at an event that included, I believe,

0:57.0

the Secretary of Defense or War was something official like.

1:03.0

And the essay was suppressed, or please don't do that,

1:06.3

Mr Buckley.

1:07.0

You can publish the book which is God and Man at Yale.

1:11.4

That is the first way and that one still rolling over us Peter. Does Yale

1:17.0

remember it? I do not think that there is a vigorous institutional memory at Yale University of William

1:28.0

F Buckley's 1951 book, got a minute, Yale.

1:31.3

There's barely an institutional memory yeah of university of see Ben

1:34.7

Woodward's great report on free speech from the 1970s you know a moment ago I went

1:40.5

back so we should we should put the current

1:45.0

controversial on campus in historical context. I went back to 2015.

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