January 23, 2024 - 8:00pm
Amid the fallout of the Ivy League plagiarism scandal and resignation of Harvard President Claudine Gay, UnHerd invited philosophy professors Peter Boghossian, Kathleen Stock and James Orr to the club for a conversation about the future of the university.
In this clip Boghossian and Stock debate the right approach to revolutionising the system: should we burn it down or build a dissident community inside the ivory tower?
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SubscribeAnti-intellectualism is the enemy and it is everywhere!
Intellectualism ain’t what it used to be.
If you haven’t seen the video, it’s fully worth your time. Three intellectuals, with different viewpoints, discussing a weighty topic, courteously disagreeing. What a treat!
From an American perspective, Peter Boghossian is completely on point. Plagiarism has run amok in institutions of higher education, especially in the U.S. AI has the technological power to unearth it and there are wealthy people, who detest DEI (and perhaps have other less honorable motives), who will gladly pay the coin to shake elite universities to their foundations.
Mock universities for DEI and they will close ranks and roll up like an armadillo. Mock them for plagiarism and they will shatter, exposed for being intellectual frauds. That’s the lesson of Claudine Gay: DEI promotes intellectual light weights who can’t or won’t do the work.
Hey! Do you know where I can watch the full video? I’m a subscriber but can’t seem to find it? Or has the full thing not been released yet?
Cheers,
Stefan
The recorded version of the full debate and discussion is on YouTube (with ads).
Force diversity of political opinion on their faculties and if that doesn’t work, then burn them down.