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Podcast: The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast
Episode: Hamline University’s Shameful Attack on Education
Description: In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Aaron Smith discuss the recent incident at Hamline University, where art history professor Erika López Prater was dismissed for showing her students a fourteenth-century painting of the prophet Mohammed. They analyze the administrators’ charge of “Islamophobia,” the issue of “academic freedom” in terms of which the controversy has been viewed, and how the aversion to teaching allegedly offensive topics is destroying higher education.
Among the topics covered:
What happened at Hamline;
Hamline's dishonest response to public criticism of their actions;
The incident as an unfortunate sign of how universities are less wi...