Glenn Loury

I am, although independent media gives me hope. Everybody has got the opportunity to be heard now, and pockets of influence can develop, emerge, and flourish. And you can't stifle the conversation in the same way that you used to be able to. because you could control a few of the portals of dissemination of information. Now that's not any longer possible.

I am, although independent media gives me hope. Everybody has got the opportunity to be heard now, and pockets of influence can develop, emerge, and flourish. And you can't stifle the conversation in the same way that you used to be able to. because you could control a few of the portals of dissemination of information. Now that's not any longer possible.

I am, although independent media gives me hope. Everybody has got the opportunity to be heard now, and pockets of influence can develop, emerge, and flourish. And you can't stifle the conversation in the same way that you used to be able to. because you could control a few of the portals of dissemination of information. Now that's not any longer possible.

I think it's going to just get more capacious. I think we're, I don't know, it's not my field, you know, about media, but I think we're on the verge of something, you know, revolutionary. Everybody's got an encyclopedia and a global translator in their pocket. Everybody can basically talk to everybody almost without restraint.

I think it's going to just get more capacious. I think we're, I don't know, it's not my field, you know, about media, but I think we're on the verge of something, you know, revolutionary. Everybody's got an encyclopedia and a global translator in their pocket. Everybody can basically talk to everybody almost without restraint.

I think it's going to just get more capacious. I think we're, I don't know, it's not my field, you know, about media, but I think we're on the verge of something, you know, revolutionary. Everybody's got an encyclopedia and a global translator in their pocket. Everybody can basically talk to everybody almost without restraint.

So I actually wish that I were going to live long enough to see what would come of this. But I'm 76, soon to be 77. What happens to the universities? Well, there's a confrontation now. And I just read an interesting piece by Peter Berkowitz. I don't know if you know who he is. He's at the Hoover Institution. He's a political theorist.

So I actually wish that I were going to live long enough to see what would come of this. But I'm 76, soon to be 77. What happens to the universities? Well, there's a confrontation now. And I just read an interesting piece by Peter Berkowitz. I don't know if you know who he is. He's at the Hoover Institution. He's a political theorist.

So I actually wish that I were going to live long enough to see what would come of this. But I'm 76, soon to be 77. What happens to the universities? Well, there's a confrontation now. And I just read an interesting piece by Peter Berkowitz. I don't know if you know who he is. He's at the Hoover Institution. He's a political theorist.

And he's talking about the Harvard Trump administration confrontation. And he's saying on the one hand, yeah, Harvard had gotten a little lax in its enforcement of restraint on the anti-Israel demonstrators and had gotten very woke in its kind of... latter-day modernist relativism of the humanities and the social sciences. And those are things that can be critiqued, he says.

And he's talking about the Harvard Trump administration confrontation. And he's saying on the one hand, yeah, Harvard had gotten a little lax in its enforcement of restraint on the anti-Israel demonstrators and had gotten very woke in its kind of... latter-day modernist relativism of the humanities and the social sciences. And those are things that can be critiqued, he says.

And he's talking about the Harvard Trump administration confrontation. And he's saying on the one hand, yeah, Harvard had gotten a little lax in its enforcement of restraint on the anti-Israel demonstrators and had gotten very woke in its kind of... latter-day modernist relativism of the humanities and the social sciences. And those are things that can be critiqued, he says.

On the other hand, he says the Trump administration's cancellation midstream of commitments to funding and wholesale assault and demanding to be able to dictate curriculum and hiring decisions of Harvard was over the top, and some of it he doubted was going to survive in the courts.

On the other hand, he says the Trump administration's cancellation midstream of commitments to funding and wholesale assault and demanding to be able to dictate curriculum and hiring decisions of Harvard was over the top, and some of it he doubted was going to survive in the courts.

On the other hand, he says the Trump administration's cancellation midstream of commitments to funding and wholesale assault and demanding to be able to dictate curriculum and hiring decisions of Harvard was over the top, and some of it he doubted was going to survive in the courts.

He says, in effect, this is almost a quote, both sides stand to get bloodied if they end up in court with one another for different reasons. So what about a compromise? And the compromise would involve, according to Berkowitz's thinking, basically Harvard conceding that, yeah, its curriculum had gotten too far left and anti-Western.

He says, in effect, this is almost a quote, both sides stand to get bloodied if they end up in court with one another for different reasons. So what about a compromise? And the compromise would involve, according to Berkowitz's thinking, basically Harvard conceding that, yeah, its curriculum had gotten too far left and anti-Western.

He says, in effect, this is almost a quote, both sides stand to get bloodied if they end up in court with one another for different reasons. So what about a compromise? And the compromise would involve, according to Berkowitz's thinking, basically Harvard conceding that, yeah, its curriculum had gotten too far left and anti-Western.

And there should be an effort to stand up a school within the university of general education whose purposes would be more liberal. affirming of the Western cultural inheritance, and that while the school would be an independent entity that has had its own faculty and whatnot, the undergraduates would be required to take some courses in the school as a part of what a Harvard education would mean.

And there should be an effort to stand up a school within the university of general education whose purposes would be more liberal. affirming of the Western cultural inheritance, and that while the school would be an independent entity that has had its own faculty and whatnot, the undergraduates would be required to take some courses in the school as a part of what a Harvard education would mean.