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Bryan Caplan Interview’s Princeton Dissident Sergiu Klainerman

Nov 6, 2022

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Is Princeton a Good Place to Work?

01:46

The Value of Color Blindness on University Campuses

02:12

Is Academic Freedom the Same as Free Speech?

02:09

Introduction

2min

Is the University of Moscow at Point Eight or Princeton at Point Seven?

2min

The University of Bucharest

2min

The University of Bucharest - What Did You Personally Witness?

2min

Is Princeton a Good Place to Work?

2min

How Much People Feel Censored?

2min

Did the Communist Regimes Leave STEM Alone?

2min

Did the Communist Party Come to You and Say, Why Don't You Join?

2min

I'm a Refugee From Communist Romania

2min

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The Communist Party Is a Vanguard of the Proletariat

2min

11.

Are You a Fanatic or an Opportunist?

2min

12.

Is the Math GRE Still Going Strong?

2min

13.

What Can Less Successful Groups Learn From Jews and Asians?

2min

14.

The Value of Color Blindness on University Campuses

2min

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Are You a Jew or a German?

2min

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Increasing Ethnic and Gender Diversity at Princeton

2min

17.

Toleration of Any Group Is Fine, but It's a Bad Idea

2min

18.

Is There a Need for a Freshman Orientation?

3min

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Is Neelistic Really the Right Word?

2min

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How Epistemically Corrupt Was Classical Marxism?

2min

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Marxism-Leninism Is the Fruit of the Enlightenment, Right?

2min

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Is Wokeism Cultural Marxism?

2min

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Wokeism Cultural Marxism

2min

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The Russian Nationalists and the Soviet Union

2min

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Yugoslavia

2min

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Is Academic Freedom the Same as Free Speech?

2min

27.

Was the Faculty Committee in Favor of Kimafuza?

2min

28.

The Ice Goober Doesn't Understand Academic Freedom

3min

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What if We Could Do Everything?

2min

30.

Are We Going to Spend Enough on Lawyers to Get Our Way?

4min

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What's Your Favorite Scene From Orwell?

4min

Sergiu Klainerman is Princeton University’s most vocal and articulate dissident professor. Find out what this famed mathematician, a refugee from Communist Romania, thinks about (a) how the Marxist-Leninism education of his youth compares to the woke education of today, (b) the decline of academic freedom and intellectual meritocracy at Princeton and higher ed generally, and (c) the best way to reverse this decline.