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Macro Hive Conversations With Bilal Hafeez

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The State of Universities in the US

I went to university Cambridge in the 1990s and there was a certain environment. It does seem like there's been a shift in the culture at universities where it's much harder to be open. The elite universities have become hot beds of intolerance and illiberal behavior as well as thought. New generation, Generation Z, are strangely fragile, hypersensitive and thin skinned because they were given cell phones too early or because their parents are too protective. We have more administrators at Yale now than undergraduates.

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