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Podcast: Honestly with Bari Weiss
Episode: Portland State Sacrificed Ideas for Ideology. So Peter Boghossian Quit.
Description: Peter Boghossian is the first one to tell you: he's no victim of cancel culture. The philosophy professor has long had a taste for stoking debate, questioning orthodoxies, and exposing the brokenness of an academic system that values identity-based grievances over scholarship. He did that, in part, by writing phony papers like "The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct" and getting them published by respected, peer-reviewed journals. That project and others painted a target on Peter’s back on Portland State's campus, where he was subjected to endless investigations and harassment. This week, Peter resigned in a...