Peter Boghossian on Woke Ideology: ‘A Recipe for Cultural Suicide’; Case for Defunding Universities [20210406]

<p>“We can't just keep funding people who are playing in make-believe-land, cranking out information to inform public policy that's completely divorced from reality. It's a recipe for cultural suicide,” says Peter Boghossian, assistant professor of philosophy at Portland State University and co-author of “How to Have Impossible Conversations.” </p> <p> A lifelong liberal and critic of former President Trump, Boghossian believes describing people as left or right is losing utility. It’s those who demand you think a certain way who are on one side, while those who do not are on the other. </p> <p> “We are facing an extraordinarily intolerant dangerous ideology, perpetuated by people who want to rob us of our cognitive liberty,” he says. = Correction: </p> <p>=</p> <p>This is the article by Peter Savodnik mentioned in the episode: <a waprocessedanchor="true" waprocessedid="5g59n" original_target="https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/americas-true-believers-and-their" dir="auto" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbGNPS1A0M3QxRktIZ3hGSnh6SGJDcWt4a2RoUXxBQ3Jtc0ttTjdkTDVENUpnUnBndU1FUl9pZ3lKYlRvOS01N3VPYUpCQ0kxSll2MDkyQ05rQXVGOWtJQWpmZXVtQlpxOWEwb2tkdWpvU25CbFRPNFhVdElnMTJjTFRma2RuYTJBS3RCQVAzOF9xVXpOUG9YZ0JtUQ&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fbariweiss.substack.com%2Fp%2Famericas-true-believers-and-their" spellcheck="false" class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string">https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/amer...</a></p> = <a dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/peterboghossian" spellcheck="false" class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string">#peterboghossian</a>​ <a dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/criticalracetheory" spellcheck="false" class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string">#criticalracetheory</a>​ <a dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/criticalthinking" spellcheck="false" class="yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string">#criticalthinking</a>​