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Podcast: The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast
Episode: Texas A&M’s Ban on Plato: Anti-”Woke” Censorship?
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In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Sam Weaver and Ben Bayer discuss a new policy in Texas A&M University that restricts professors’ ability to teach topics related to gender and sexual orientation, which resulted in one professor being prevented from teaching Plato’s Symposium.
Topics include:
Texas A&M’s policy;
The case of Plato’s Symposium;
Relation to intellectual freedom;
Who should decide in public universities;
Motives behind the policy.
Resources:
Ayn Rand’s essay “Fairness Doctrine for Education” in Philosophy: Who Needs It
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