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The Dispatch Podcast

Sniffing Out Advocacy | Interview: Robert P. George

The Dispatch Podcast

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.43K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Princeton professor Robert P. George says it’s up to the faculty to save universities. He joins Jamie to explain the issues with our campuses, including: -punishing free speech -abstract advocacy versus threats -banning the bad stuff -the long march through institutions -the trustees not saving the universities -Claudine Gay’s plagiarism accusations Show Notes: -Robert P. George's profile at Princeton -Robert P. George's X profile -Watch this episode on YouTube Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the dispatch podcast. This is Jamie Weinstein. My guest today is Robbie George.

0:06.6

Robbie George is the McCormick Professor of Juris Prudence and Director of the James

0:11.6

Madison Program in American ideals institutions at

0:14.6

Princeton University. He has won too many honors and served on too many

0:18.8

prestigious commissions to mention here. Suffice it to say he is one of the country's leading academics of any ideology and on a short list of maybe two for the most famous conservative college professors on campus today.

0:32.0

So it was an honor to have him on this program.

0:34.1

We discussed many issues including

0:36.3

and most obviously what is going on on college campuses today,

0:39.8

what he thought of the statements of the three presidents of major elite universities before Congress,

0:46.8

what he would do if he was president of Princeton University and faced with those same questions. and a little bit about the just

0:54.8

broader national political moment we are in. I hope you enjoy this episode.

0:59.2

Without further do I give you Professor Robbie George

1:19.4

George welcome to the dispatch podcast.

1:21.4

Thank you Jamie it's my pleasure.

1:23.0

Thanks for inviting me on.

1:24.0

Well, it's a real honor to have you on.

1:26.9

And I want to start here, actually.

1:29.4

And I'm kind of interested in what your response would be as both someone who is a staunch advocate for free speech and

1:34.9

someone who has been a strong fighter against anti-Semitism. I want to imagine for a moment

1:42.0

you are Princeton President Robbie George and you were sitting in a house hearing room earlier this month and you were asked a very broad and general question which was does calling for

1:56.4

the genocide of Jews constitute bullying in harassment.

2:00.0

How would President Princeton President Robbie George respond?

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