The Perilous State of the University - Jonathan Haidt

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🗓️ 21 November 2017

⏱️ 96 minutes

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I recently traveled to New York University to talk with Dr. Jonathan Haidt about, among other things, disgust, purity, fear and belief; the perilous state of the modern university; and his work with Heterodox Academy (https://heterodoxacademy.org/) an organization designed to draw attention to the lack of diversity of political belief in the humanities and the social sciences. Dr. Haidt is Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University's Stern School of Business and a social psychologist.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Jordan B. Peterson podcast.
0:05.8	You can support these podcasts by donating to Dr. Peterson's Patreon, the link to which
0:10.3	can be found in the description.
0:12.8	Dr. Peterson's self-development programs, self-authoring, can be found at selfauthoring.com.
0:33.0	I'm here today in Manhattan talking to Dr. Jonathan Height, who's a professor at NYU.
0:39.2	And I'm here for a bunch of reasons.
0:42.2	Jonathan is an extremely interesting researcher.
0:44.7	I've been following his work on Discussed and Political Believe for literally for decades.
0:49.1	He was one of the first people who started to do serious research on Discussed, which
0:53.0	is its own emotional system and therefore very much worth attending to.
0:57.3	But we also have some other interests in common.
1:00.5	Jonathan also started this institute called the Heterodox Academy, which is attempting
1:04.9	to bring back a reasonable diversity of views, what he regards as a reasonable diversity
1:10.4	of views to university faculty and campuses and discussions.
1:14.5	So I first met Jonathan.
1:18.4	It's going to be just about 30 years ago, 25 years ago, and 2014.
1:23.4	Yeah, 20th I'm sorry.
1:24.7	The 1994.
1:25.7	Oh, it was in 1994.
1:26.7	Yeah, right.
1:27.7	Right.
1:28.7	So, yeah, you came to do a job talk at Harvard for an assistant professorship position.
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