"Whither the Looniversity?" - A Podcast on the Miserable State of the American University

"Whither the Looniversity?" - A Podcast on the Miserable State of the American University

di "Whither the Looniversity?" - The Podcast of The Peerless Review
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Dr. Aryeh Kontorovich, Prof. of Computer Science, Ben Gurion University, Israel
Dr. Kontorovich is a professor of computer science at Ben Gurion University in Israel, where his research focuses on machine learning, Markov chains, probability, and statistics. Recently, he has been working with ChatGPT and has had some success in demonstrating its limitations when it comes to logic, reasoning, and humor. We discuss the future implications of AI for teaching and learning in higher education. Dr. Kontorovich comes from a family of Russian Jewish academics, and we also discuss why so many scholars with family ties to the old Soviet Union have been so vocal in their criticism of wokeness and the DEI agenda in universities.
S2 · E11
21 mag 2023
1:04:36
Dr. Tabia Lee, Former Faculty Director, De Anza College
Dr. Lee was a director of the Office of Equity, Social Justice, and Multicultural Education at De Anza College...until she started asking the wrong questions. After second-guessing the DEI and "anti-racist" policies in her department, Lee found that she had a target on her back. Although De Anza hired her to rein in the excesses of wokeness in the Office of Equity, she was ultimately fired. We talk about what happened...and whether dogmatic notions of diversity, equity, inclusion, social justice, and antiracism can be redeemed on American campuses.
S2 · E10
14 mag 2023
50:43
Dr. Rob Jenkins, Prof. of English, Georgia State U - Perimeter College
Prof. Jenkins is associate professor of English at Georgia State University Perimeter College. He has served as both professor and dean at a number of different universities. As a Higher Education Fellow at the Leadership Institute's Campus Reform Online, he frequently writes about a number of problems in American schools. Further, he frequently gives training and talks on the topic of institutional leadership. We discuss the recent history of the English department in America, and we discuss how the DEI/woke agenda in higher education will impact students' capacities for leadership.
S2 · E9
7 mag 2023
53:25
John Sailer, Senior Fellow and Director of University Policy, National Association of Scholars
John Sailer is Senior Fellow and Director of University Policy for the National Association of Scholars (NAS), where his reporting on the implementation of DEI in university hiring has actually produced reforms in various institutions across the country. His work has been published in the Wall Street Journal, The Free Press, Unherd, and more. We discuss strategies for effectively fighting the diversity, equity, and inclusion agenda in higher education.
S2 · E8
30 apr 2023
45:52
Dr. Scott Yenor, Professor of Political Philosophy at Boise State, Washington Fellow at Claremont's Center for the American Way of Life
Prof. Yenor teaches political philosophy at Boise State University. Recently, he accepted a position as a Washington Fellow at the Claremont Institute's Center for the American Way of Life. Yenor's most recent book is entitled "The Recovery of Family Life: Exposing the Limits of Modern Ideologies." His talks at the National Conservatism conference on the subjects of feminism and the sexual revolution have triggered the campus left, the acolytes of which continue to nip at his heels. We discuss policy interventions that might counter the excesses of wokeness on America's university campuses and the in-roads that Gov. Ron DeSantis has made in Florida.
S2 · E7
23 apr 2023
45:00
Dr. Amy Wax, Robert Mundheim Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Prof. Wax needs no introduction. She is a medical doctor, and is currently a professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania. In the past, she worked in the Office of the Solicitor General in the U.S. Justice Department. In that capacity, she argued before the Supreme Court on over a dozen occasions. Her heterodox ideas (and her willingness to boldly speak them) has made her a target of the institutional left, on campus and off. Here, I ask Prof. Wax whether the university can be reclaimed from the woke ideologues. In addition, we briefly discuss the University of Pennsylvania's repeated attempts to censor and censure her -- and the status of her legal defense.
S2 · E6
23 apr 2023
47:55
Dr. Matthew Wielicki, Prof. of Geological Science, University of Alabama
Dr. Matthew Wielicki recently made news when he announced that he would be leaving his tenure-track professorship in the Geological Sciences department of the University of Alabama. I talk with Dr. Wielicki about why he made this decision and how even the sciences are being corrupted by wokeness. We also discuss the hysteria surrounding climate alarmism.
S2 · E5
2 apr 2023
43:36
Dr. Judith Curry - Prof. Emerita in Earth Sciences, Georgia Tech - President of Climate Forecast Applications Network
Dr. Judith Curry has been at the forefront of the scientific debate about global climate change for decades. After serving as Chair of Georgia Tech's School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, she switched her status to Professor Emerita, citing an "anti-skeptic bias" in academic science. In addition to serving on NASA's Advisory Council on Earth Science, her most recent work has been as President of the Climate Forecast Applications Network. We discuss the ideological infection of the scientific community, the catastrophe unfolding in our universities, and the many ways that climate scientists, the media, the state, and NGOs exaggerate the threat of man-made climate change.
S2 · E4
26 mar 2023
58:25
Dr. Mary Grabar - Fellow at Alexander Hamilton Institute, Author of "Debunking the 1619 Project"
Dr. Mary Grabar is currently a Fellow at the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization, Executive Director at DissidentProf.com, and frequent author of public writing on politics and culture at all the best publications. Most recently, she is author of two books: "Debunking Howard Zinn: Exposing the Fake History that Turned a Generation Against America" and "Debunking the 1619 Project: Exposing the Plan to Divide America." Having been "cancelled" in academia before "cancellation" was a familiar term, I talk with Dr. Grabar about her departure from academia, the abuses of tenure and academic freedom, and the schools' push to indoctrinate children to carry out a Communist cultural revolution.
S2 · E3
18 mar 2023
43:21
Dr. David B. Porter - Former Prof. of Psychology, Berea College (Case Pending)
After a colleague's reputation was unfairly attacked by a Title IX complaint, Dave Porter, then a professor of psychology at Berea College, began talking to students about the value of academic freedom and whether it is in tension with the right to learn in non-hostile environments. His inquiry set off a chain of events that led to Berea's dismissal of Prof. Porter. He joins me to explain the sequence of events in that affair, and he provides an update on the state of his lawsuit against Berea College. Further, we discuss the publication of his new study (published at PeerlessReview.org) entitled "How Hostile Environment Perceptions Imperil Academic Freedom: The Effects of Identity and Beliefs on Perceptions and Judgments."
S2 · E2
4 mar 2023
1:03:42
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