Rajiv Sethi – The Trump-Led Upheaval at Columbia

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0:21.8	Thank you.
0:23.4	Hello, Rajiv. How are you?
0:24.8	Hi, Glenn. Fine. Thank you.
0:26.4	This is Glenn Laude. This is The Glenn Show. And I'm with Rajiv Sedi.
0:31.2	I teach at Brown University and am host of the Glenn Show, Glenn Laurie, host of the Glenn Show.
0:37.5	And Rajeev is a professor of economics at Barnard College, Columbia University, and an old friend and collaborator, colleague of mine.
0:45.3	So it's good to welcome you back, Rajiv, to the Glenn Show.
0:49.0	Thanks, Glenn. Very happy to be back.
0:51.2	So what's going on with you in your life these days?
1:01.0	Well, Colombia, as you know, has been in the news quite a bit and Barnard with it. So being involved with various activities on campus trying to see what the faculty can do,
1:09.0	put our heads together to deal with the issues that
1:11.8	we're facing which are quite brave, as you know.
1:14.6	That's part of it.
1:15.6	And then of course my usual research in teaching.
1:17.0	Yeah, I certainly want to talk about what's going on at Columbia and more broadly in
1:23.1	American higher education.
1:24.9	The audience should know that you are, in addition to being a fine economist,
1:29.8	scholar and teacher, also the author of a very informative newsletter, what you call
1:37.0	imperfect information, which people can find at Substack.
1:41.6	And I don't know, for the last year or so, you've been periodically posting your
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