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The Putin and Erdogan Show

Mind the Professors

Good evening, listeners! We have another excellent episode for you this week as host Richard Aldous speaks with Dimitar Bechev about the relationship between Putin and Erdogan before inviting Samuel J. Abrams to discuss intellectual diversity (or lack of it) in modern higher education.

First, Dimitar Bechev, a Visiting Scholar at the Center for European Studies, Harvard, and the Director of the European Policy Institute, Sofia, returns to the program to discuss the “bromance” between Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, arguing that the relationship between the two Presidents is much shallower and more brittle than it may appear.

Then, Samuel J. Abrams, professor of politics at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, and research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, makes his podcast debut to discuss the recent incident on Middlebury College’s campus in which sociologist Charles Murray and Professor Allison Stanger were attacked by student protestors. He examines the homogeneity of thought on college campuses today, and the critical role professors play in this phenomenon.

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