Dissident Dialogues: “You Are Supposed To PRETEND!” Kathleen Stock, Steven Pinker, Greg Lukianoff, John McWhorter

13,215 views 30 Jul 2024 Leading academics come together to discuss and debate whether Western universities can be saved from peril. With free speech on campus in jeopardy, and weekly Palestine protests following years of attacks on curriculum and the pulling down of statues. Can they be salvaged or do new universities need to be built. Kathleen Stock is a philosophy professor, author and contributor at Unherd. She was forced out of her position at University of Sussex for breaking rank on Gender issues, before going the University of Austin Texas. Stephen Blackwood the moderator is the founder of the new university Ralston College in Savannah, GA. Steven Pinker is the Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and author of books on language, mind, & human nature. John Mcnhorter is associate professor of linguistics at Columbia University and author of several books including the recent ‘Woke Racism: How a New Religion has Betrayed Black America’ Greg Lukianoff is a free speech lawyer and CEO of civil liberties group   / thefireorg