‘The Politics of the Academy Have Been Defeated’
Quillette Podcast
Quillette
4.6 • 917 Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:31.6 | Welcome to the Quillette podcast, hosted on alternate weeks by me, Jonathan Kay, and by Iona Italia. Quillette is where |
| 0:40.6 | Freethought lives. We are an independent grassroots platform for heterodox ideas and fearless |
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| 1:02.4 | former Yale English professor turned author and essayist William de Ressowitz, who will talk to me |
| 1:09.1 | about his recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, |
| 1:12.5 | titled Academ's Divorce from Reality. |
| 1:15.7 | Americans are fed up, and not just people who voted for Trump. |
| 1:19.4 | In his much-discussed article, Bill, as he is widely known, |
| 1:24.0 | argues that one of the effects of the 2024 election was a decisive repudiation of radical |
| 1:30.3 | progressive ideas that are popular on campuses, but not really anywhere else. Ideas such as |
| 1:37.0 | abolishing the police, letting female identified men into women's sports, and opening America's |
| 1:42.5 | borders to undocumented immigrants. Please enjoy my |
| 1:45.9 | interview with author and essayist Bill Doressowitz. Thanks so much for joining the Quillette podcast. |
| 1:52.6 | Sure. Thanks for having me on. Okay. First sentence in your article, which I've described in the |
| 1:58.5 | introduction, the politics of the academy have been defeated. |
| 2:03.2 | The politics of the academy. What are the politics of the academy? |
| 2:06.9 | Right. Obviously, that's a phrase that requires explanation and inevitably the idea is going to be an overgeneralization. |
| 2:17.3 | But as I go on, I think, in the next sentence to particularize it, |
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