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IQ2 Conversation: A New University Offers "Forbidden" Courses

Jan 7, 2022

01:07:32

Episode guests

Pano Kanelos

Niall Ferguson

Highlights

AI Chapters

Episode notes

Is This a Case of a Professor Resigning From a University?

03:50

Is Systemic Racism a Problem on American Campuses?

04:14

University of Austen

05:09

Introduction

3min

Academic Freedom and Free Speech

4min

Is Systemic Racism a Problem on American Campuses?

4min

The Issue Isn't the Ideas We're Against, It's Methods and Tactics

2min

University of Austen

5min

Is the Universe of Ostn a Dangerous Place?

3min

The University of Austin - The First Meeting of Trustees

2min

One Dream Streaming Service

5min

Are You Looking for Students From St. John's or the University of Austin?

3min

10.

Are You a Marxist?

3min

11.

Is This a Case of a Professor Resigning From a University?

4min

12.

The University of Austen - Is That a Disqualifier?

2min

13.

What Is the University's Take on This?

5min

14.

Real Vision Is a Streaming Service That Explains the Inner World of Finance and Investments

5min

15.

We Are Here as Human Beings to Learn Together

2min

16.

How Did That Class Turn Out?

2min

17.

Is It OK to Sanitize War?

4min

18.

Are You the Only Person Drawing a Salary Now?

2min

19.

Is Not Going to Be a Four Year Comprehensive University?

2min

20.

We're Not Expecting Olympic Swimming Pools

2min

21.

The University of Austin

5min

They say that colleges have become too censorious. That our most prestigious institutions have abandoned their mission of fostering critical minds and sparking thoughtful dissent. And that a generation of American students is missing out. So, this group of scholars and activists are founding something new: a university – they say – dedicated primarily to free speech. The University of Austin will get its start with a series of noncredit "Forbidden Courses." In this Intelligence Squared conversation, John Donovan sits down with the university's inaugural president Pano Kanelos and co-founder Niall Ferguson to discuss.

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