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But trust, as anyone who has studied moral philosophy or just speaks English, knows, is mutual and it depends on an understanding that is shared of what the purpose is of this or that institution, this with that custom or ritual.

And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.

Long time listeners of this podcast will know that I very much care about higher education.

I love my job as a professor at an American university.

I think universities do a lot of good things in the world.

And I'm also frustrated with some of the real shortcomings of American universities

and with a way in which they have squandered, a lot of the public trust.

About 10 years ago, most Americans had deep trust in American higher education.

The number of people who do has now gone down to about a third of a population. And that I think

is a genuine existential threat for their long-term existence. Well, as you may have heard,

there is an interesting development in this area, a report by a committee of faculty members

at Yale University on trust in higher education,

which is asking the question of how it is that universities have lost so much trust

and what it is they might be able to do in order to regain some of their trust.

And whereas a lot of people were expecting a very lowest

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