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I'm Preet Bharara.

In the last 10 years or so, there was a sustained and deliberate effort to inject fear into campus life and to create penalties for any intellectual risk-taking, any deviation from orthodoxy.

That's Neil Ferguson. He's a professor, historian, an author of 16 books about, as he puts it,

money and power. His work spans everything from the British Empire

to the World Wars to biographies of influential figures like Henry Kissinger. Ferguson is a fellow

at the Hoover Institute, a frequent columnist on world politics, and he's also the founder of a new

university. More on that later. We talked this week about two issues he is especially passionate

about, academia and liberalism. And we get into where, in his view, the two have diverged in

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On Explain It to Me, we treat every single question you ask us with the utmost professionalism.

What was your initial reaction when you read that question?

Honestly, like my gut initial reaction was like, oh honey.

Yeah, I'm kind of like, okay, all right.

I'm glad he said that.

There are no bad questions, but there are some that are really hard to answer.

This week on Explain It to Me, Seagall Samuel tells us why those are the one she gravitates towards.

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