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2/2: ##EDUCATION: University faculties are one-sided & What is to be done? Peter Berkowitz, Hoover Institution.

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🗓️ 13 July 2024

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2/2: ##EDUCATION: University faculties are one-sided & What is to be done? Peter Berkowitz, Hoover Institution.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/07/07/roots_of_and_remedies_to_americas_illiberal_education_151212.html

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0:00.0

Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch.

0:10.0

He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him him sounds like an elephant with a chest infection

0:16.0

Well they call him a dreamer and now they're right all aboard mister I can never sleep when I'm traveling.

0:23.0

Find all the comfort you need in the quiet lounge.

0:26.0

Piando Ferris, there is another way.

0:29.0

I'm John Bachelor with my colleague Peter Berkowitz at the Hoover Institution.

0:34.2

We're discussing the American campus, especially those campuses

0:38.2

royal by anti-Semitism and protest and violence and threat and arrest in the spring of and problem that's been building for decades and the dating of that problem is important

0:54.8

to me and I turn to the article that Peter is published in Real Clear Politics and Peter

1:00.2

points to an article from National Affairs that's's a publication of AI, one of those exit

1:05.1

options. And in it is Professor Steve Tealous, Stephen Tealous of Johns Hopkins writing about what is to be done with all these problems that

1:15.8

have piled up over the decades. The first thing to be done is what he calls liberal institutionalists.

1:22.2

But before we get there Peter a timeline I'm I'm

1:26.1

necessarily bound by my by my unacceptable reading of history I like like timelines. I don't like phenomena if they don't have a

1:36.0

date attached to them. When did this happen, Peter, because my memory, this is, I'm graduating

1:41.9

19 in the spring of 70s. My memory is, I'm graduating in the spring of 70.

1:44.0

My memory is that I had maybe several kinds of professors,

1:47.3

but I was in the Religion and History

1:49.0

of American Civilization Departments,

1:51.0

which are exactly to be excluded by faculties today.

1:57.0

But that was what I was at 22 years old.

2:00.0

And I had professors who were Tweedy and men who'd been born in the 20s and 30s.

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