The professors who benefit from this well-furnished career pipeline, often I would say that one professor

in this kind of field is too many. In my research, I found that these large backdoor hiring

programs that are run by places like the UC system, the people that

they're hiring.

Not only are they the people who are out there celebrating when Hamas massacred Israeli

citizens, it was also, it's also people who are doing things like transgender studies.

Some people who are actually, they say that their area of specialization is pornography studies,

fat studies.

And so, yeah, I think there are absolutely too many people who are being encouraged to pursue this career path.

I'm really excited about our guest today.

John Saylor of the Manhattan Institute.

Why?

Because he looks at academic freedom.

He looks at activism in academia in his work at the Manhattan Institute.

Let me get specific in a second.

First, let me ask you to please hit that subscribe button. Wherever you're

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drop right into your lap. So John Saylor is the director of higher education policy and a senior fellow at the Manhattan

Institute.

His research and investigations cover issues of academic freedom, free speech, and here's the key

one, ideological capture in higher education.

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