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IQ2 Conversation: A New University Offers "Forbidden" Courses

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🗓️ 7 January 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

They say that colleges have become too censorious. That our most prestigious institutions have abandoned their mission of fostering critical minds and sparking thoughtful dissent. And that a generation of American students is missing out. So, this group of scholars and activists are founding something new: a university – they say – dedicated primarily to free speech. The University of Austin will get its start with a series of noncredit "Forbidden Courses." In this Intelligence Squared conversation, John Donovan sits down with the university's inaugural president Pano Kanelos and co-founder Niall Ferguson to discuss.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hello everybody, I'm John Don Van.

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This is Intelligent Squared.

0:34.6

And I'm sure you have heard the lament about America's universities

0:38.6

or at least many of its most elite universities

0:41.6

that they don't just lean left in the politics of most of their faculties

0:45.6

and administration.

0:46.8

And that's a claim that has a lot of support behind it, research behind it.

0:51.2

But also, and here's where the claim gets a little bit more contentious.

0:54.8

That many of these same elite universities are so captured by the left

0:59.0

that competing viewpoints are stifled on campus.

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