How Campus Free Speech Crackdowns Fuel The ‘War On Science’

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🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Lawrence M. Krauss, a theoretical physicist, author, and president of the Origins Project, joins Federalist Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle to discuss the free speech crackdown on scholarship and science and explain why it is dangerous not only to academic freedom, but also to the future of the nation.

You can find Krauss' book The War on Science: Thirty-Nine Renowned Scientists and Scholars Speak Out About Current Threats to Free Speech, Open Inquiry, and the Scientific Process here.

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0:00.0	And we are back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.
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0:42.7	Our guest today is Lawrence M. Krause, theoretical physicist, president of the Origins Project,
0:50.6	bestselling author and editor of the War on Science, 39 renowned scientist and scholars speak out
0:59.0	about the current threats to free speech, open inquiry, and the scientific process.
1:05.1	Lawrence, thank you so much for joining us on this edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.
1:08.8	Well, it's great to be with you, at least virtually.
1:11.3	Yes, absolutely.
1:12.5	And, you know, I think about the war on science and the elements of, that have hit us in this battle virtually over the last several years, obviously, the methods of communication and the delivery of science
1:29.9	have changed over the years.
1:32.2	What has in particular changed has been this kind of group think,
1:39.4	this idea that politics is science.
1:43.5	And I think that is what is really at the core of your new book.
1:48.3	Yeah, absolutely.
1:49.3	The notion that activism has replaced scholarship in many disciplines in academia is worrisome.
1:56.0	Now, as a scientist, we used to kind of laugh 30 years ago, 30 years ago when I was fresher at Yale,
2:01.5	we looked down the hill at the English department, which was doing deconstructionism,
2:06.4	which basically said there was no objective knowledge and no meaning and everything was
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