The Importance of Professors in the Modern World

The professor says the kind of professors that Strauss was emphasizing would be very necessary to prevent the worst of the worst from happening are precisely the kinds of professors that you're like literally not allowed to be today. "It's absolutely the case that those professors are being choked out of academia," he says. The Soviet Union early in their early history, they sent the philosophers out on the ship of fools, and now universities are sending a lot of people on a ship of fools as well.