Day 330 - Bret Stephens: Where American universities went wrong

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🗓️ 31 August 2024

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Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.

The New York Times op-ed columnist Bret Stephens joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today's episode, a bonus reply of our weekly What Matters Now podcast.

This week, campuses across North America opened their doors for their fall semester. Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Stephens recently wrote a column called, “What I Want a University President to Say About Campus Protests,” in which he channels a university president presenting his foundational principles, including, “the spirit of inquiry.”

In this week’s episode, we hear Stephens’s take on concepts that have evolved and flourished on campuses in the past several decades, including how critical theory has shifted faculties and the role of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI).

So this week, as students return to campuses, we ask Bret Stephens, what matters now?

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0:00.0	Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring one key issue currently shaping Israel and the Jewish world.
0:13.0	I'm your host, Amanda Borscheldan.
0:15.5	This week, as campuses across North America open their doors for their fall semester, I speak with New York
0:22.7	Times opinion columnist Brett Stevens. The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer recently wrote a column
0:29.6	called What I Want a University President to Say about campus protests. In it, he channels a university president presenting his foundational principles,
0:41.9	including what Stevens calls the spirit of inquiry. This is a spirit that I personally
0:48.4	encountered over 20 years ago when I was a fledgling journalist and Stevens happened to be my editor-in-chief
0:55.9	and the person who set me on the journalistic path that I still walk. After Stevens' column
1:03.2	about the status of universities today, I reached out to hear his take on concepts that have
1:09.3	evolved in the past several decades,
1:12.0	including critical theory and diversity, equity, and inclusion.
1:16.8	So this week, as students return to campuses, I ask Brett Stevens,
1:21.7	What Matters Now?
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2:24.0	Brett, thank you so much for joining me today. I've bugged you so many times after you've
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