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🗓️ 19 April 2016
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If there's one thing our university system is devoted to, it's "diversity." Our universities can boast faculty members who look very different from one another and who come from different places -- but they more or less think the same. Aren't ideas a teensy bit important, too? We discuss why universities have so little interest in intellectual diversity.
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1:03.1 | about the one kind of diversity colleges avoid. And I'm pretty sure you know what I'm talking about. |
1:09.5 | You go to college campuses pretty much |
1:11.4 | anywhere in the U.S. and what do you find? Everybody on the faculty holds more or less the same views. |
1:17.5 | Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's some diversity that extends about two millimeters, but otherwise it's more |
1:24.7 | less the same view. And in particular, when you compare the general |
1:30.2 | consensus among the faculty that you will find, and you compare that to the range of opinions |
1:36.0 | that actually does exist out there, including libertarianism, you'll see just how narrow it is. |
1:41.7 | So I want to talk about this today, and joining me to do that is John |
1:45.9 | Hasnes. Now, before I introduce John, let me point out that when I talk to him, I, for some |
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