Sean Decatur doesn’t see a free speech crisis on campus

Sean Decatur doesn’t see a free speech crisis on campus

Sean Decatur is the president of Kenyon College and the first African-American to hold that job. He’s also one of the most thoughtful voices in the debate over free speech and political correctness on campus. "Colleges and universities have been charged from their very origins to advance civility, and this has meant regulating student behavior on campus,” he says. "If anything, the approach taken earlier in history was far stricter than anything that 21st-century critics of higher education see as a product of 'political correctness.’” Decatur manages these conflicts as a college president, looks at them as a historian, and brings a perspective that’s unusually alert to the larger social context. As such, this is a conversation that begins in the fights over speech but quickly dives into more fundamental questions, like what kind of learnings we value, whose definitions of civility matter, what we ask colleges to teach, and what the role of the student has become. This debate often plays out with far less nuance than it deserves. Decatur's perspective is an antidote to that. Book Recommendations: Demographics and the Demand for Higher Education by Nathan D. Grawe The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity by Kwame Anthony Appiah Lab Girl by Hope Jahren Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tämä jakso on lisätty Podme-palveluun avoimen RSS-syötteen kautta eikä se ole Podmen omaa tuotantoa. Siksi jakso saattaa sisältää mainontaa.

Jaksot(766)

Best of: Work as identity, burnout as lifestyle

Best of: Work as identity, burnout as lifestyle

Here, at the end of the year, I wanted to share one of my favorite episodes of 2019 with you. Earlier this year, two essays on America’s changing relationship to work caught my eye. The first was Anne...

26 Joulu 20191h 17min

Republicans vs. the planet

Republicans vs. the planet

Dave Roberts is an energy and climate writer at Vox and a senior fellow at the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. He started as his career covering climate science an...

23 Joulu 20191h 41min

The geoengineering question

The geoengineering question

Most analyses of how to “solve” climate change start from a single, crucial assumption: that carbon emissions and global warming are inextricably linked. Geoengineering is a set of technologies and id...

19 Joulu 20191h 14min

How to solve climate change and make life more awesome

How to solve climate change and make life more awesome

The climate series is back! The reason for the delay is that I wanted to make sure that this episode was next up in the series. Once you start listening, you’ll understand why.  So far, we’ve spent th...

16 Joulu 20191h 34min

Paul Krugman on climate, robots, single-payer, and so much more

Paul Krugman on climate, robots, single-payer, and so much more

It’s cliché to call podcasts wide-ranging. But this conversation, with Nobel-prize winning economist and NY Times columnist Paul Krugman, really is. A sample of what we discuss: - How economists mucke...

12 Joulu 20191h 28min

The moral philosophy of The Good Place (with Mike Schur and Pamela Hieronymi)

The moral philosophy of The Good Place (with Mike Schur and Pamela Hieronymi)

After creating and running Parks and Recreation and writing for The Office, Michael Schur decided he wanted to create a sitcom about one of the most fundamental questions of human existence: What does...

9 Joulu 20191h 42min

When doing the right thing makes you a criminal

When doing the right thing makes you a criminal

For most of his life, Wayne Hsiung was a typical overachiever. He attended the University of Chicago, started his PhD in Economics, became a law professor at Northwestern, was mentored by Cass Sunstei...

5 Joulu 20191h 43min

Peter Singer on the lives you can save

Peter Singer on the lives you can save

Imagine you’re walking to work. You see a child drowning in a lake. You’re about to jump in and save her when you realize you’re wearing your best suit, and the rescue will end up costing hundreds in ...

2 Joulu 20191h 17min

Suosittua kategoriassa Politiikka ja uutiset

uutiscast
aikalisa
politiikan-puskaradio
ootsa-kuullut-tasta-2
viisupodi
rss-ootsa-kuullut-tasta
tervo-halme
rss-vaalirankkurit-podcast
the-ulkopolitist
rss-podme-livebox
rss-asiastudio
rss-pinnalla
otetaan-yhdet
et-sa-noin-voi-sanoo-esittaa
aihe
rss-ulkopoditiikkaa
rikosmyytit
yksilla-raahessa-podcast
rss-sanna-ukkola-show-verkkouutiset
rss-girls-finish-f1rst