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Hi everyone, I'm Sahilhanda and I am a contributing editor at Persuasion. I wrote a piece recently called the

liberalism in our institutions and it was basically my attempt to diagnose why as I see it mainstream once liberal institutions like Harvard

and the New York Times etc have taken a turn towards appealing a kind of fanatical I guess we would call it woke base and why they're kind of doing the actions that they are that we all tend to

decline in publications like ours. And I think counter to what a lot of people on say

our side of the so-called culture awards like to say, I don't think that it's simply because these two

organizations are stupid and spineless. I think more it's a matter of the

incentive structures that are facing them today.

With publications I think that's an outcome of business model.

I think the internet has made it such that the most viable path to sustainability for any large publication is a subscription model.

Or really any publication is a subscription model and that means that it places the journalist more at the mercy of those who are paying for the

publication rather than in the past when it was kind of advertisers compensating all of the writers.

And then in higher ed, I think it's really the admissions process has entirely changed

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