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Honestly with Bari Weiss

A Congressional Hearing, A Resignation, and Why DEI Must End For Good

Dec 14, 2023

28:50

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Explore the congressional hearing on anti-Semitism, the resignation of Penn's president, and the broken state of American higher education. Uncover the hypocrisy in handling free speech on college campuses and the role of university presidents. Highlight the need to restore higher education's pursuit of truth and knowledge, challenging the ideology of DEI and its implications. Discuss the contextual nature of speech and conduct, emphasizing the impact on liberalism and America.

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University presidents need to prioritize intellectual freedom, merit-based hiring, and the elimination of double standards on speech.

DEI in American higher education promotes an identity-based approach, demonizes hard work and excellence, and replaces open debate with denunciation; it should be dismantled.

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The Importance of Moral Leadership in Higher Education

The podcast episode discusses the lack of moral leadership in American higher education institutions, focusing on the recent congressional testimony of the presidents of Penn, Harvard, and MIT. It highlights how these leaders struggled to address rising anti-Semitism on their campuses and failed to provide clear responses to questions about the boundaries of free speech. The episode argues that university presidents should not only uphold legal rights but also offer moral leadership, emphasizing the need to prioritize intellectual freedom, merit-based hiring, and the elimination of double standards on speech.

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Impact of DEI ideology

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Introduction

3min

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Shopify and a Congressional Hearing on Anti-Semitism

2min

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Hypocrisy and Double Standards in Free Speech on College Campuses

7min

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The Role of University Presidents and the Broken American Higher Education System

4min

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Returning Higher Education to Its Original Purpose

10min

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The Contextual Nature of Speech and Conduct

4min

How did the congressional hearing on antisemitism last week go so awry?

Was the resignation of University of Pennsylvania’s president just another cancellation, only this time on the other side of the political aisle?

How can we fix our broken universities? And what’s at stake if we don’t?

Bari’s thoughts on these questions and more on today’s episode.

For further reading on these topics, please check out the following pieces in The Free Press:

The Ouster of Penn’s President Won’t Fix the Problem by Peter Savodnik

The Treason of the Intellectuals by Niall Ferguson

Even Antisemites Deserve Free Speech by Nadine Strossen and Pamela Paresky

The Things I Never Thought Possible—Until October 7 by Mathias Döpfner

Claudine Gay Is Why I Never Checked the ‘Black’ Box by Eli Steele (first appeared in Newsweek)

Where Free Speech Ends and Lawbreaking Begins by Ilya Shapiro

Law Students for Hamas by Aaron Sibarium

How American Colleges Gave Birth to Cancel Culture by Rikki Schlott and Greg Lukianoff

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