Some students feel entitled to critique the expertise of their professors, he says. "There's something kind of amazing about that to me generationally" He asks: Why is there so little respect for the expertise?
Amna Khalid and Jeff Snyder are writers and professors of history at Carleton College.
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk, Amna Khalid and Jeff Snyder discuss the predominance of certain progressive orthodoxies on college campuses; why opponents of left wing censoriousness should also resist illiberalism in education from the right; and how we can stand up for philosophically liberal, humanistic values without becoming bitter, reactionary, or uncivil.