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09 Dec 2019, 2:16 pm
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.
_________________ “Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.” - James Baldwin
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.
09 Dec 2019, 2:16 pm
