Rob Montz, the filmmaker who is documenting the growing free speech crisis in America's universities, talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay

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Quillette

Society & Culture, Politics, News, Science, News Commentary

4.6 • 917 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Rob Montz, the Washington, DC-based documentarian who has made a succession of slick, entertaining videos about the free speech crisis engulfing America's universities, talks to Jonathan Kay. You can see some of Rob's videos, with some additional commentary from Jon, on Quillette's website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Colette Podcast. My name is Claire Lehman and I am editor and chief of Colette.
0:08.0	Colette is where Free Thought lives. We are an independent grassroots platform for heterodox ideas and fearless commentary.
0:15.3	Our podcast is a team effort and is jointly hosted by myself,
0:18.8	associate editor Toby Young and Canadian editor Jonathan Kay.
0:22.4	You can support our podcast by
0:24.1	visiting Patreon.com forward slash quilette and becoming a monthly patron. By
0:29.1	becoming a monthly patron you'll also receive our weekly newsletter.
0:32.4	Welcome to the quilat podcast. patron you'll also receive our weekly newsletter.
0:33.3	Welcome to the Quillett podcast.
0:35.1	I'm Jonathan Kay, Quillett's Canadian editor.
0:38.0	When we talk about the way that video has helped fuel the movement that's sometimes described
0:42.4	as the intellectual dark web, we often think
0:45.1	about famous thinkers such as Jordan Peterson delivering speeches or lectures on YouTube and
0:50.6	other social media platforms.
0:53.0	But Washington, D.C. based documentarian Rob Maunts, co-founder and CEO of Good Kid of Productions,
1:00.0	takes a more ambitious approach.
1:02.0	Maunts has produced tightly narrated, inventively shot documentaries
1:06.1	about American politics and campus life
1:08.7	that are both intellectually penetrating
1:11.0	and surprisingly funny.
1:12.7	His 2017 documentary, Silence You Part 2, what has Yale become, published on We The Internet TV,
1:21.0	won the 2018 Reason Video Prize and his work has been covered in The Economist, The New York
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