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PREVIEW: ACADEMY: Conversation with colleague Peter Berkowitz of Hoover Institution, re the alternatives for scholars rejected or frozen out by the one-sided political life of the academy. More later.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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PREVIEW: ACADEMY: Conversation with colleague Peter Berkowitz of Hoover Institution, re the alternatives for scholars rejected or frozen out by the one-sided political life of the academy. More later.

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0:00.0

Ah, she's brilliant. Miss, I finally got plans out the group chat. We get it. Four votes for a festival,

0:06.0

three for a city break. It's hard to adhere to everyone's needs. There's Betty with her oversized tent.

0:10.7

Sarah and her six foot eight boyfriend.

0:13.1

All right.

0:14.0

Roger Junior and his dog, Roger Senior.

0:16.8

And don't get us started on Mel.

0:19.4

But, like a marriage counselor, she's the one keeping things together.

0:22.8

All aboard Miss I finally got plans out the group chat.

0:25.8

Keep everyone's plans alive when you travel with us.

0:28.1

P and Dau Ferris, there is another way.

0:30.2

This is John Batcher, a conversation with my colleague Peter Berkowitz of the Hoover Institution

0:35.1

about the well-known overwhelming statistic showing that the University, the Academy,

0:41.9

is dominated by one side of the political equation, one side

0:45.8

dominating for years so much so that it's accepted, not pushed back against at all and Peter looks at the alternatives through the

0:58.1

lens of a professor at Johns Hopkins who has written a long piece for the American Enterprise Institute.

1:05.9

We're looking at what is to be done and in this instance exit options.

1:11.2

Question of think tanks, Are they adequate for the other side of the political equation to find employment and something

1:20.2

sustaining when the university doors are unwelcoming.

1:25.0

Here's Peter Berkowitz on the think tank option for conservative thinkers.

1:31.0

More of this tonight.

1:34.0

Well, they are, in a sense, exit options, meaning conservatives who get, who are excluded at various stages pursuing careers in higher education, find some options in think tanks,

1:49.0

especially now in Washington, D.C. the Hudson Institute, the Heritage Institute, the American Enterprise Institute,

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