Heather Mac Donald on The Juilliard School's Strange Anti-Racist Meltdown

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Society & Culture, Politics, News, Science, News Commentary

4.6 • 917 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Quillette's Jonathan Kay speaks to City Journal writer Heather Mac Donald about how a single drama workshop caused Juilliard students to feel "traumatized"—sparking an activist campaign aimed at undermining the elite performing-arts school's famously rigorous standards. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Colette Podcast. My name is Claire Lehman and I am editor and chief of Colette.
0:08.0	Colette is where Free Thought lives. We are an independent grassroots platform for heterodox ideas and fearless commentary.
0:15.0	Our podcast is a team effort and is jointly hosted by myself, associate editor Toby Young,
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0:33.0	This is no Mickey Mouse school.
0:35.0	You're not getting off easy because you're talented, you work twice its heart.
0:39.0	I don't care how well you dance.
0:41.0	Bruno, this is our big chance, man.
0:43.0	Don't you want success?
0:44.0	They've got nothing in common, but a dream.
0:47.0	Because I'm gonna be a dancer, a good dancer.
0:50.0	You know who says so? Me.
0:52.0	A dream of fame.
0:54.0	I'm gonna live forever.
0:58.0	Welcome to the Colette Podcast.
1:00.0	I'm Jonathan Kay.
1:01.0	If you're my age, you don't need me to tell you what you just heard.
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