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Jay Dyer returns to Our Interesting Times to discuss his recent debate and critique of Jordan Peterson and the classical liberal worldview. We also talk about oligarch-backed culture creation and revolution and Jay reflects on his 20 years of research. Jay is the host of Jay’s Analysis , the co-host of Hollywood Decoded, and the author of Esoteric Hollywood: Sex, Cults and Symbols in Film. *Please consider supporting this program by donating here.
 

An estimated 1 in 10 US colleges have 'free-speech-zone' policies that limit freedom of expression on campus to out-of-the-way areas. [...]

It would cost $80 billion a year to make public college free in the United States.

University of California, Berkeley, student Jack Palkovic, center, stands with others near a Berkeley College Republicans table in front of Sather Gate on campus in Berkeley, Calif., Feb. 2, 2017. (AP/Jeff Chiu)

University of California, Berkeley, student Jack Palkovic, center, stands with others near a Berkeley College Republicans table in front of Sather Gate on campus in Berkeley, Calif., Feb. 2, 2017. (AP/Jeff Chiu)
Republicans have an increasingly dim view of colleges and universities and the effect those institutions have on the way things are going in the United States, according to a Pew Research Center survey released Monday.

Education Secretary-designate Betsy DeVos testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017, at her confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)
WASHINGTON – Trying to keep afloat the new debt-relief system tailored to defrauded college students, 19 states slapped Education Secretary Betsy DeVos with a federal complaint Thursday.

The founders knew that free people would be free to prosper. Along these lines, the mere notion of a federal apprentice program smacks of massive government overreach, and worse, it’s unnecessary. If it makes financial sense for businesses to apprentice more workers, then they should do just that without the helping hand of President Trump.

A lot of people assume that any degree increases your income over the course of your life, but it actually seriously depends on what major you choose and what career you go into. This week on Words & Numbers, Antony Davies and James R. Harrigan break down the numbers on what your college degree is actually worth.

For human potential, few things are more dangerous than a “safe space.” A flourishing life requires what Nassim Taleb calls “antifragility”: the adaptive capacity to self-improve in response to challenge and adversity.
When young people are artificially insulated from the trials of life, they are deprived of the opportunity to develop this vital virtue: to become antifragile. The prolonged fragility that results is often used as an excuse by parents for extending dependence, which only prolongs fragility still further.

(ZHE) In April 2014, just as the Ukraine conflict (and proxy civil war) was hitting its climax, in the process undermining US-Russian relations for years, some 2,066 Americans were asked to show where the Ukraine was on a map.