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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal. This is Free Expression with Jerry Baker.

Hello and welcome to free expression from the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal. I'm

Jerry Baker, editor at large of the journal. If you're not already a subscriber, please do sign up

at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you do, you're listening. This week, a conversation with

the head of one of

America's leading universities. Last month, I sat down with Paul Alivasatos, president of the

University of Chicago at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland for a wide-ranging discussion

about what's going wrong and what's going right in American higher education. It's been a tumultuous

few months on university

campuses. Pro-Palestinian protests and disturbing instances of anti-Semitism have led to a backlash

from prominent alumni outraged at the direction many elite colleges have taken. This comes, of course,

after years in which many of America's top colleges have become

apparently ideologically monolithic institutions with fewer and fewer conservative voices,

or indeed any voices other than the Orthodoxes, represented in academia, and growing

evidence of a culture of even of repression of voices that dissent from those orthodoxes.

That came to a head last month with the resignation of Claudine Gay, a Harvard president,

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