Jonathan Haidt and Jeffrey Sachs on campus speech

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Really good discussion between Jonathan Haidt and Jeffrey Sachs. They have some slight disagreements but for the most part framed different sides of the picture. I wasn't wild about the title, doesn't quite characterize the video (and sounds very 2017 and alarmist, which this conversation really isn't) but its still quite a good meta-analysis of speech on campus.

Viewed most of it. Very interesting points.

Journalists certainly have "knocked down the walls of professionalism." It's safer to dissent in Cuba than it is in modern academia. Dissenters are not being jailed but they're being forced to retreat into their safe places or their careers are toast.

Too many universities are moving away from the search for truth (or as one student stated, "practical skills") in favor of a search for “social justice."
Interesting that the speakers' response was for the student to enroll in technical school rather than Lafayette College, which incidentally has an excellent engineering department.