Mar 8, 2018
Former Evergreen State College Professor Bret Weinstein describes himself as a “professor in exile.” The evolutionary biologist left Evergreen last September in the fallout from the controversy surrounding the school’s planned Day of Absence programming.
Weinstein’s objection to the programming led fifty students to
disrupt his class and demand his resignation. The backlash became
so intense that Evergreen’s chief of police told him she could not
protect him from protesters. As a result, he had to hold his
biology course in a public park.
On this episode of So to Speak, we speak with Weinstein about his
experience and the state of free speech and inquiry in higher
education and beyond.
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