The University Is a Precious Institution

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A university is dedicated to the pursuit of truth, he says. Free inquiry means you go wherever the evidence and your imagination may lead you. Civil discourse means that you exchange arguments with people when you don't agree with them on behalf of trying to get to the bottom of things. "You can trace to the university much if not most of the advances in technology ... science of pursuit of humanistic understanding"

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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:12) – Martin Luther King Jr.
(16:00) – History of slavery
(30:39) – Equality of outcome
(47:02) – Math and economics
(1:03:17) – Racial groups
(1:16:33) – Black patriotism
(1:26:26) – MLK and Malcolm X
(1:40:07) – Joe Rogan controversy
(1:59:23) – Accusation of racism
(2:07:08) – Elon Musk and Twitter
(2:12:41) – Universities
(2:21:19) – Cognitive inequality
(2:33:45) – Politics
(2:53:10) – Ketanji Brown Jackson
(2:59:14) – Thomas Sowell
(3:04:28) – Barack Obama
(3:23:06) – Mortality
(3:35:20) – Meaning of life