Over recent decades, the American university has been on a conveyor belt toward higher costs, less intellectual diversity, and less relevance to contemporary American life. Will Inboden, a decorated historian of foreign policy and newly appointed provost of the University of Texas at Austin, is here to change that. Will and Peter discuss how higher education got into a rut, how universities can lead us out of it, the point of Shakespeare, and how to build lifelong friendships.
Timestamps
00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:30 - Why choose a career in academia
00:05:00 - Shaken public trust in institutions of higher learning
00:13:00 - The role of a university
00:16:50 - Academic freedom
00:20:26 - STEM research and the CCP
00:29:00 - Decline of the liberal arts
00:40:15 - The pursuit of truth
00:42:30 - Viewpoint diversity
00:48:00 - Life as provost
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Host: Peter Robinson
Peter Robinson Unbridled is a podcast of the Civitas Institute of the University of Texas at Austin
Executive Producers: Mat Hames Beth Hames
Researcher: John Masko
Producer: Laura Utt
Editor: Josh Meyers
Post Production: Jacob Estrada
Camera: Josh Harwick, Nathan Jennings
Music by Brandon Shufflebarger
