Men Should Be What they Seem
Young Heretics
Spencer Klavan
4.9 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Claudine “Fake and” Gay is out at Harvard, and there’s something about this scandal that reveals what makes academic corruption so painful and infuriating: it’s the humiliation of having to believe a lie. As it happens, this is a news story that can illustrate—with a little help from William Shakespeare—the core issue in matters of sin, art, and our present national dysfunction.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Young Herritics where today we're tackling the question that's been on everyone's mind. |
| 0:07.0 | What is a plagiarist? All right, it's not every day that an ongoing story in the news is just perfectly |
| 0:19.1 | positioned to speak to almost every major concern of this year little podcast, but that is certainly |
| 0:26.4 | what's going on right now with this Claudine Gay story, the president, X President of Harvard. |
| 0:34.0 | If you've been following this in the news, it's been going on for a while, |
| 0:37.0 | Christopher Rufo and a number of others have been exposing |
| 0:41.0 | this woman, Claudine Gay, who was the president of Harvard, and who absolutely covered |
| 0:46.6 | herself in shame at a House hearing before the House of Representatives when she failed to emphatically assert that Harvard was against people calling for the genocide of Jews when it's been obvious for some time that Harvard is extremely has a very low view of free speech in almost every other context except anti-Jewish, anti-Israel statements and speech which they're happy to allow. |
| 1:13.0 | So that was the kind of inciting incident of this whole saga, but it's now unfolded way, way beyond that into |
| 1:20.3 | a fight over plagiarism and over gay's actual body of public published work. |
| 1:29.3 | So Claudine Gay, who I always say, her middle name should be fake and, |
| 1:33.2 | Claudine gay middle name fake and has become kind of this flashpoint for talking about |
| 1:39.3 | higher education and the failure of higher education, the failure of elite academic institutions in this country to live up to their high and I would even say sacred calling. |
| 1:52.0 | It's because of that failure that something like this |
| 1:54.8 | podcast exists. That's why I'm here. That's why we're here having this |
| 2:00.2 | conversation instead of something else instead of happily operating in a world where you can get a |
| 2:06.0 | classical education just at any major institution or even in high school or |
| 2:12.1 | elementary school. |
| 2:13.3 | The reason that I called this show The Classical Education |
| 2:16.0 | you didn't know you were missing is because it turns out people |
| 2:20.1 | are being denied soul food without even being told that it's being denied to them |
| 2:25.4 | because it's been made out to be evil and patriarchal and cis hetero sexist |
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