A Congressional Hearing, A Resignation, and Why DEI Must End For Good

Honestly with Bari Weiss

The Free Press

Society & Culture, News

4.6 • 7.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

How did the congressional hearing on antisemitism last week go so awry? Was the resignation of University of Pennsylvania’s president just another cancellation, only this time on the other side of the political aisle? How can we fix our broken universities? And what’s at stake if we don’t? Bari’s thoughts on these questions and more on today’s episode. For further reading on these topics, please check out the following pieces in The Free Press: The Ouster of Penn’s President Won’t Fix the Problem by Peter Savodnik The Treason of the Intellectuals by Niall Ferguson Even Antisemites Deserve Free Speech by Nadine Strossen and Pamela Paresky The Things I Never Thought Possible—Until October 7 by Mathias Döpfner Claudine Gay Is Why I Never Checked the ‘Black’ Box by Eli Steele (first appeared in Newsweek) Where Free Speech Ends and Lawbreaking Begins by Ilya Shapiro Law Students for Hamas by Aaron Sibarium How American Colleges Gave Birth to Cancel Culture by Rikki Schlott and Greg Lukianoff Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Okay, Red, nice and energize for me. Take one.
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0:18.5	Didn't you hear what I just said? The race is on to be a hero.
0:23.0	Okay, I guess that's a wrap.
0:25.0	M&M's for all fun kind.
0:28.0	Terms and conditions apply.
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0:30.0	I'm Barry Weiss, and this is honestly.
0:35.0	Today's episode is a little bit different from what we usually do.
0:39.0	It's not going to be a long interview or roundtable or a debate.
0:42.0	Instead I'm going to share my thoughts with you. My
0:44.8	thoughts about the recent jaw-dropping congressional testimony of the Presidents of
0:49.1	Penn, Harvard, and MIT, I'm sure you've seen it. My thoughts about the resignation of Penn's president a few days later
0:55.3	and whether it's a good or a bad thing. And most importantly, what I think can be done to fix our obviously
1:01.8	broken universities. As you can imagine, I have no shortage of views here.
1:06.7	We're going to be doing more like this over the next few months, experimenting with op-ed-style
1:11.9	talks and takes. We hope you enjoy it, but as
1:14.5	always we want to hear your feedback and hear what works and what doesn't. Okay, we're
1:18.9	gonna take a quick break and then we'll be back with my take of the week.
1:21.8	How American Higher Education Broke and then we'll be back with my take of the week,
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