Larry Summers on What Went Wrong on Campus

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

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4.6 • 907 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Yascha Mounk and Larry Summers also discuss the promise and perils of artificial intelligence. Larry Summers is an economist, the Charles W. Eliot University Professor and director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School, and a member of the board of directors of OpenAI. Summers is the former President of Harvard University, the former Secretary of the Treasury under Bill Clinton, and was a director of the National Economic Council under Barack Obama. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Larry Summers discuss how universities can re-commit to pursuing truth and protecting academic freedom; how current economic indicators contrast with how many people actually experience the economy; and how Biden can improve his odds for re-election. This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity. Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.persuasion.community Podcast production by Jack Shields, and Brendan Ruberry Connect with us! Spotify | Apple | Google Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk & @joinpersuasion Youtube: Yascha Mounk LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The homes of the future need EV chargers, solar panels and energy efficient heat pumps.
0:07.0	But at EDF, we're not waiting for the future.
0:10.0	Our teams rated excellent on Trust Pilot are installing them all over the UK.
0:14.5	Right now.
0:20.5	EDF. Change is in our power.
0:24.0	When the President of Harvard is a figure on a Saturday Night Live skit,
0:36.0	when three presidents of universities combine to produce the most watched
0:42.0	congressional hearing film clip in history when applications
0:50.4	to Harvard fall in a several month period by more than they've ever fallen in a one year period before.
1:01.0	When alumni are widely repudiating their alma
1:07.8	monitors, when they're the subject of as many legal investigations as the Boeing Company.
1:18.0	You have a real crisis in higher education.
1:24.0	And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.
1:27.0	The idea that liberal democracy would prove to be the uncontested ruling ideology of the 21st century has died many deaths. It died its first death on 9-11,
1:50.0	another during the 2008 great financial crisis, another when C. Ching Ping
1:58.0	consolidated his power in China showing that the country was not by any appearances moving towards greater freedom
2:08.5	and permissiveness.
2:10.2	And it has died many deaths in Russia as well.
2:14.9	And yet the death, the murder of Alexei Navalny a few days ago in captivity in a Russian prison on fraudulent criminal charges
2:27.4	is one such turning point. It reminds us if reminding was still necessary that it is a mistake to assume
2:41.0	that the arc of the universe always bends towards justice or that the ideas of
2:49.0	liberal democracy are sure to prevail. But that is not a reason to give up on these ideas, nor is it a reason
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