Ep. 590 Take That, Harvard: The Free Harvard/Fair Harvard Campaign Gains Steam
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2016
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
The brilliant Ron Unz, himself a Harvard alumnus, is spearheading a twofold campaign, pushing a slate of candidates to the Harvard Board of Overseers to (1) abolish tuition and (2) be more transparent about the admissions process, since it seems fairly obvious that Harvard is using a quota system. The proposal to abolish tuition may sound quixotic or even weird, but since tuition receipts are a tiny percentage of what Harvard earns from its endowment, it makes sense. Decide for yourself!
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 590. |
| 0:03.0 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:08.1 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
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| 0:44.0 | jasonstapleton.com. Hello, everybody. We've got a bit of an unusual episode today. It's not |
| 0:50.6 | strictly related to libertarianism, but it is related to sticking a finger in the eye of Harvard University, and I can't see how that could be a bad thing, so I think it's worth talking about. |
| 1:02.5 | And joining us today is my old friend Ron Unz, who years ago back in, I guess it must have been the 1990s, made a bid for the Republican nomination for governor of California against Pete Wilson, the sitting governor, and he did pretty well, especially considering that at that time he had no name recognition. |
| 1:23.5 | Ron is a theoretical physicist by original training and a software developer and an extremely successful one by profession. |
| 1:31.3 | He's been involved in various public policy issues. |
| 1:34.3 | He served as founder and chairman of English for the Children, which was a nationwide movement to dismantle bilingual education. |
| 1:41.3 | And his most recent spate of activity has involved this matter involving Harvard, |
| 1:48.4 | which is a two-fold project that I will get to in just a minute when I bring Ron on, |
| 1:54.2 | and you'll see exactly what this whole thing is all about. Ron, welcome to the show. |
| 1:58.5 | Hey, great to be here. You're always up to something interesting, but for some reason, this particular campaign |
| 2:04.1 | of yours really caught my eye. I guess we're both Harvard alums. I didn't realize that you |
| 2:09.7 | went there. What house did you live in? Oh, I was in South House right before they renamed |
| 2:14.1 | at Cabot House. Oh, so you were in the quad. Exactly. Ah, I always thought being |
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