@19:15 Reminds me of an interview with Sir Roger Scruton. He described conditions in Eastern European universities before the fall of the Berlin Wall. There was something called a Denunciation Letter that would sometimes appear on the desks of university professors that they were expected to sign denouncing one of their professional colleagues with the understanding that if they did not comply, they would be the next person to be denounced. And it makes me very sad.

Lots of videos now of academics and the concern over this topic. I'm working class, but this is all very interesting. I studied philosophy and so forth. I'm so very happy for the bravery of these guests.

I really hope your channel explodes soon. The content is fantastic.

I’ve been telling anyone who will listen to me what is going on at the California State University where I teach political science. Most just don’t believe it could be the case that the university many of them attended would be indoctrinating rather than educating students. I’m not allowing that to deter me and I intend to spend my retirement speaking to service groups, political leaders and parent’s associations about the social justice, DEI propaganda. I’m writing down the points made by a number of NAS guests, especially this, to share. But several former colleagues have warned me that the woke-progressive power elite will come for my retirement benefits. I hope that won’t be the case.

Never expect courage from your academic colleagues. That is a very rare virtue. It always has been and always will be. On the other hand, cutting the water off as one speaker noted would get the attention of the universities, but the sad reality is that the major universities, especially the Ivies, live off of the donations from the ultra rich. That segment of givers still finds satisfaction in seeing their names on chairs, buildings, and programs. Their giving is unlikely to stop. Yale for instance doesn't need anybody's $100k bequest and that quantity of money wouldn't deflect the administration from its thirty year course. Yale certainly can't do without the big money from the Jacksons and Schwarzmans. And those people, unlike the Whitneys, love the current day version of Yale.

Courageous people, they have had much to loose by speaking truth. However, Haven't you seen this coming for the passed 40 years?

The problem with Bruce Gilley's perscrption _"if we can subsidize decarbonization [...] we can subsidize deracialization."_ The phenomena under discussion is not just on university campuses, and it's not just race. As I commented elsewhere here: "Today, every American institution-public and private-from academia to media, from entertainment to Wall Street, from law to medicine, from the federal bureaucracy to the Federal Reserve, from the intelligence community to the officer corps; all are dominated at the top by the (Cultural Marxist) Left. Now, this ideology is being baked into law and banking, among so many others. I fear it may be too late.

These four are brave and defenders of truth. I commend them on their good character. If the elites in academia have let you down, please travel and spend some time with blue collar Americans. You will be refreshed and energized to keep up the good work. There is still sane culture in the US. I am glad you escaped the college cult.

Australia~ yes, much appreciated for threading the needle (whilst remaining within the channels, for now)

Amy and Bruce!!! Yes

Brilliant discussion

As a non-American, it seems amazing to me that almost no-one ever comments on the iniquity of the US College “Business Model” - ie the Government underwriting of ruinous Student Loans. As a direct result of this ridiculous scheme :- 1). College Fees have inflated (?) 10-fold over 15-20 years 2). Administrators - since their costs are indemnified - have expanded to outnumber Educators in the average Ivy. 3). The students (and their parents) are now regarded as “customers” rather than recipients, and every whim, fad and complaint - no matter how absurd - is embraced and reacted to as “valuable feedback”. If a FRACTION of the current levels of government cost and effort were targeted more strategically towards financial assistance for students from poor backgrounds and difficult circumstances, then the only losers would be the leeches at the periphery of knowledge provision; fees would drop dramatically; and the power of the middle-class thick but woke administrative brigade would be massively curtailed. This would do FAR more for “poorer” Black and Latino students than so-called “affirmative action” which, it seems, just serves to promote comfortable, middle class minorities to relatively better schools than would otherwise be the case. This in itself is not a one-step panacea, but would surely be a sane starting point in the reclaiming of proper indiscriminate knowledge provision.

How do we support you all putting together a new university?

These are uncompelling “victims”

3 comments. This is really getting ghosted.

Many, If not most people are smarter than me, I am ok with knowing that

A belated comment. Why are there so few views on this excellent discussion? Living in South Africa, this issue strikes a particular chord. Our situation is, of course, unique, and I make no comparison...suffice to say that for the past nearly 30 years, since the end of apartheid, the ANC government has haphazardly tried to enforce affirmative action, (and given our history, no reasonable person could object) ..BUT, the highly educated Whites are leaving in droves, our children are moving to Australia, New Zealand, Canada etc. And the government couldn't care less, while all the while doing nothing substantial to the education system to produce Black graduates of any substance.

As for finding assistance from the federal government, that's a stretch. Wokism is baked deep into the federal bureaucracy. They're not an ally. You had the most conservative Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, who's deeply tapped into woke issues in higher education, but other than campus sexual assault issues, she found it very difficult to get much done.

Re: Prof. Wax's counternarrative on race differences. Apart from the ridiculous 'racism' allegations, there are two major possible sources for these differences: the environment that the people concerned are living in and their genetics. As the example of Prof. Wax shows, already mentioning an environmental cause - culture - can bring you into deep trouble. No wonder that both she and Heather Mac Donald stay clear of genetic explanations, which would probably cause a lot more trouble for them than what they are already experiencing. The problem with this is that it is becoming more and more clear than many environmental style explanations depend on genetics to a large degree. In addition, there is increasing evidence that genetics plays an important role in I*Q and other differences. Thus, all interventions trying to change the black environment while ignoring the role of genetics will probably be doomed to failure (as the example of past large-scale interventions like Head Start shows). Wax and Mac Donald are brave women. But advocating wrong explanations for the differences between the races is not only useless but harmful because trying to act on those wrong explanations will fail and as a result only increase racial tensions.

Compelling

We should not be surprised when the worldview that founded this country..that of a Biblical worldview, namely.there is good and evil..words have meaning ..and truth can be known is eradicated. We are not even talking about a personal relationship with the Bible..even the deists of our forefathers subscribed to a Biblical worldview Btw the Bible sums up race succinctly when it says in the Book of Acts that all men are of one blood having originated from one man...worldview matters.

I respect many Jews with somewhat mystery. The mystery of intelligence as it were. Of course, I abhor the abuse of said intelligence, i.e., Hollywood, financial institutions, etc. You cannot stereotype an entire group. But it's obvious the IQ. It's just a matter of whether it's used for good or bad. But I have entered this phase of fascination with intelligence, myself being of mediocre IQ. And browsing all these videos, I often find myself listening to those of Jewish ancestry. This doesn't bother me. I really don't understand the persecution of the Jews. They're mostly smart. I guess the problem is when that intelligence is abused, I would presume, mostly amongst those who are Jewish by ancestry but don't follow precepts of Judaism.

give us reparations and let me buy some land far out in the countryside so I never have to see any of you ever again LOL that's my solution

1:28:20 A black student brought Amy some Girl Scout Cookies. I hope she didn't eat them for obvious reasons. Would you eat something a complete stranger handed you when you know that you're at the center of a hateful and controversial ideological war?

So sad

Amy Whacks brought me here. I am rooting for her...

We must declare that all groups have good IQ's. None have really low IQ's... eh ???? 70 ?? 80 ????

Bruce is Jewish???

Incredibly boring conversation

Rule number 1 Mr. Katz. Keep your mouth shut if you want to survive in Academia . Albert Einstein said this and he lived in Princeton .