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The Rubin Report

I Have Good News & Bad News for the West | Bret Weinstein

The Rubin Report

Emma Dog Productions

News Commentary, News

4.614.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" talks to Bret Weinstein about the current state of academia and politics in the West; why academia is beyond rescue due to a toxic intellectual environment that has driven out those who know how to do the job properly; why all institutions of the West are in free fall; why there is still hope; why the West needs to rekindle its values; why we may return to a more violent phase of history; and much more.

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0:00.0

Brett Weinstein.

0:07.0

Dave Rubel.

0:10.0

Dave Rubin.

0:11.0

Very good to be here with you. I did not know we would be seeing each other in London, but we're doing apparently a big Rubin report jam-Rhee reunion show over the last couple days. There's something I think deeply interesting about what put you on the map at Everbrain,

0:26.2

which everyone knows about in the protests and the threats of violence and now that you

0:30.4

and your wife Heather no longer have jobs there after dealing with the mob and

0:35.4

what we're seeing sort of burst across academia all over the West right now.

0:40.6

I suppose you are not that surprised. No in fact I rather

0:47.2

I rather famously said that this was going to spill out into the world and that it

0:50.9

really was not about free speech and it was only

0:54.5

tangentially about college campuses and that it would eventually infect

0:58.1

everything which it is doing and it's a pity that it had to get to that stage for people to realize that that was inevitable.

1:07.0

But I guess we're here now and maybe there is still time to rescue something. Do you think there's a time to rescue something.

1:13.0

Do you think there's a time to rescue something?

1:15.0

Well, why don't we do the academic level first

1:17.0

before we get to sort of the political version of it, which is what's happening here?

1:20.0

Yeah, no, you can't rescue the academy.

1:22.0

It's un rescuable, and the academy. It's un rescuable and the reason that it's

1:23.7

un rescuable is that the toxic intellectual environment has been so aggressive for so long that there aren't enough people left in the

1:36.6

Academy who know how to do the job properly, right? The number of people, most of

1:41.2

those who did know how to do the job properly either realized that

1:45.2

academia wasn't the place to do it and they never completed their degrees or they

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