Immediate thoughts on Freedom University *AUDIO version*
Added 2021-11-09 07:48:18 +0000 UTCLike the video version but with no video...
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The feed this is released on is being wonky - I get an error saying it is not in the right format for Advanced Features (i.e. speed settings, etc.) I've never had this issue before - is there something different about this episode? I'd love to listen but need adjustments.
Yo...landa (Yo-land-ah not Yo-lond-uh)
2021-11-16 06:24:34 +0000 UTCDon't know why I didn't think of this earlier but Rogan's first course should be POD1010: Intro to Podcasting.
William LEGRAIN
2021-11-15 19:27:42 +0000 UTCLoved this—thanks for rising to the moment that warranted the emergency response. Good insights re: the pretense of no founding ideology. One thing I’d gently push back on is your downplaying of the importance of the elite & coastal schools. They amount to advantages that very much matter. Nothing wrong w paying attention to who is influential there and who gets to be elite.
Agnieszka Z
2021-11-10 07:11:10 +0000 UTCCan't help feeling that this whole charade might just be a bit of publicity hype for what will start out effectively as a business school with some anti-woke mascots attached for name recognition
Paul Bowman
2021-11-09 16:24:07 +0000 UTCAside from the political dimension, there is the economic and institutional set of interesting questions -- what does it actually take to found a university? I remember studies that showed it wasn't anything you actually learned at university, but rather the social networks/affiliations/institutional reputation that gave one a boost in terms of financial and professional life after graduation. Is accreditation important for more than access to government financial aid? The right end of the political spectrum is so convinced that the university system in the U.S. is their sworn and impenetrable political enemy -- I can imagine there is a deep well of financial support for a "fighting fire with fire" sort of approach. In the end, if a clear and obvious snake oil scheme like Trump's University can make a real go of it, might not something like this at least have a chance to have some sort of actual existence? Didn't many now well-established universities get their start through some particular religious / political interest or other? It seems like a joke -- and I hope it fails fast and is shown to be one -- but many things look odd at their outset, no? It will be fascinating to watch. Most contemporary influential institutions of higher education in the U.S. seem to draw their legitimacy from a very secular / apolitical stance regarding the truth, regardless of their origins. I think that may be why this rings so wrong-headed as a venture. One possible trajectory: it has as much success as any small religiously affiliated college/university and serves a propaganda purpose for those affiliated with it, but has no more impact than its religious cousins in terms of contributing to lasting scholarship (i.e., not much).
Tom Allison
2021-11-09 16:05:49 +0000 UTCThe ideological angle of this is I think the most fascinating -- the right trying to claim purity with respect to bias/political interest. It is so clear that that isn't the case with these particular culture-war enthusiasts -- but I do let the ideal of objectivity float away rather wistfully. If, as you both seem to have been claiming of late, no truth claims / no truth claimers are beyond the distortion of tribal affiliation, then where are we with respect to a pursuit of truth? Simply lost in perspectivalism? Pick one, it doesn't really matter?
Tom Allison
2021-11-09 15:49:23 +0000 UTCCan't wait to hear the delicious hot takes of the Guru Rapid Response Team.
Fraser McMillan
2021-11-09 08:11:00 +0000 UTC
