America's Censored Classrooms

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.5 • 772 Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Mike talks with Jeremy Young, PEN America’s Freedom to Learn program director, about the recently released report, America’s Censored Classrooms, 2024. Topics Mike & Jeremy Discuss Include: - how big of a problem educational censorship is - where it’s happening - the deviousness of ‘stealth censorship’ - institutional neutrality and viewpoint diversity - how universities are responding to censorship attempts - what to expect from the incoming Trump administration PEN America on X The Politics Guys on Facebook | X Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. You can support us or change your level of support at patreon.com/politicsguys or politicsguys.com/support. On Venmo we’re @PoliticsGuys. The Politics Guys is part of The Democracy Group, a network of podcasts that examines what's broken in our democracy and how we can work together to fix it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	atheists, agnostics, long-haired widows, short-haired widows, vandal,
0:04.9	gulag.
0:05.1	I love the government, hug the government, hug the government, hug the government, love, the government,
0:11.1	hug the government, hug the government.
0:12.0	Welcome to the politics, guys, a place for bipartisan, rational, and civil debate on
0:16.6	American politics and policy.
0:18.7	I'm Northern Kentucky University political scientist Michael
0:21.4	Barronowski. My guest today is Jeremy Young, the Freedom to Learn program director at
0:26.2	Penn America. Like me, he's an academic. He's got a Ph.D. in U.S. history from Indiana
0:31.2	University. And today, he's going to talk to me about his work on educational censorship,
0:37.2	which was recently released in the report,
0:39.7	America's Censored Classrooms, 2024.
0:43.1	Jeremy Young, welcome to the show.
0:45.0	Thanks so much for having me.
0:46.5	So I thought before we got into the specifics of the report, you could tell me a little bit about
0:51.7	Penn America, what it is, what it does, that kind of thing.
0:54.8	Absolutely. Penn America is a hundred-year what it does, that kind of thing. Absolutely.
0:55.4	Penn America is a 100-year-old, a free speech and human rights organization that focuses on literature.
1:01.2	Our mission is to celebrate literature and defend the freedoms that make it possible, of which some of the foremost freedoms are academic freedom and the freedom of expression.
1:10.3	And so we have a series of literary
1:12.3	awards and similar things, literary festivals. We have programs that protect writers all around
1:19.6	the world. And we have the Freedom to Learn program, which I direct, which is a program that
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