I appeared this morning on Varney & Co. on Fox Business to discuss the status of academia in the context of the resignation of Harvard President Claudine Gay.
My segment started after a lead in by a news report on L’Affaire Gay.
The interview was short and to the point, no wasting time!
Transcript (auto-transcribed, may contain transcription errors)
Varney (00:00):Come on in Cornell University law Professor William Jacobson. William, how long will it take to change the dominant liberal culture in our universities?WAJ (00:11):I think it’s going to take decades. It took decades to get to where we are now. If you look back 30 years ago, it was not this skewed. Conservatives have essentially been purged from academia, and they have been purged not so much by firing, but by not hiring. There has been almost no hiring of open conservatives in academia, certainly at elite academia, in 20 to 30 years. It’s going to take a long time.Varney (00:34):Do you believe it brings down the quality of education at these elite universities?WAJ (00:40):I think there’s no question about it, because students only get exposed to one viewpoint, to one world outlook, and it’s gotten a lot worse in the last three, four years with the extreme emphasis on so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion and critical race theory. So what was a bad situation, is now much worse. So it is doing a disservice to the students because they don’t hear opposing viewpoints on campus.Varney (01:08):Does anybody talk to you in the faculty lounge,WAJ (01:11):<laugh> Well, I don’t go to the faculty lounge very much. I would say that there’s a cold peace for me. I try not to bother people in the building and hopefully they try not to bother me. But I am not fully integrated into the faculty. I think mostly because of my political viewpoint does not align with most people.Varney (01:33):Well, you are a free speech guy and you’re welcome on this program, and we want you to come back soon because this is an ongoing situation. We want to hear from you, professor William Jacobson. Come back soon. Thank you, professor.
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