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Can Universities Be Saved?

In this episode: McKay Stangler, ISI’s Director of Foundation Relations, joins the podcast to discuss Richard Weaver, one of the luminary figures of the early conservative movement a crash course in the themes of the southern agrarian tradition: practice, place, and solidarity how to recover a sense of the shared use of language, and the social solidarity that accompanies it Texts Mentioned: Ideas Have Consequences by Richard Weaver Visions of Order by Richard Weaver Boomers by Helen Andrews After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre “Up from Liberalism” by Richard Weaver “House Divided Speech” by Abraham Lincoln 0:00 Intro 1:55 The current state of higher education 6:20 How different colleges are gripped by leftism 9:09 Intro to Richard Weaver and the Southern Agrarians 14:05 Themes of the southern agrarian tradition 17:30 “Place” vs the frontier thesis 20:26 Torrents of mass culture 24:57 Preserving local culture 29:16 Where did we go wrong? 35:30 The tyranny of modern scientism