Richard Lowery is a professor of finance at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas, Austin. In this conversation, he describes the ideological climate of his university and the consequent negative effects on undergraduate education and freedom of expression on campus.

Links:

Richard Lowery at UT Austin:

https://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty-directory/james-lowery/

National Review coverage:

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/a-brave-prof-fights-the-woke-faculty-at-university-of-texas/

Academic Freedom in Crisis:

https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2021/04/academic-freedom-in-crisis-punishment.html

Music used with permission from Blade Runner Blues Livestream improvisation by State Azure.

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Steve Hsu is Professor of Theoretical Physics and of Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering at Michigan State University. Previously, he was Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation at MSU and Director of the Institute of Theoretical Science at the University of Oregon. Hsu is a startup founder (SafeWeb, Genomic Prediction, Othram) and advisor to venture capital and other investment firms. He was educated at Caltech and Berkeley, was a Harvard Junior Fellow, and has held faculty positions at Yale, the University of Oregon, and MSU.

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