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0:00 Intro

1:12 Attacks on the university from within and without

9:50 Ground News ad

11:43 Reshaping institutions by force and by argument

20:56 Critiquing the Gaza War without antisemitism

22:30 Reforming para-academic institutions

32:07 Is there a potential conflict between commitments to truth and commitments to diversity of thought?

39:19 Caught between “casual relativism” and “fierce absolutism”

52:18 Cornel: There is no “mic drop” argument on Gaza or anything else

55:19 The straight-jacket of emotional over-investment

1:00:36 The role of faith in the search for truth

1:10:19 Finding faith beyond reason in Stephen Sondheim

Recorded April 12, 2025

Links and Readings

Robbie and Cornel’s new book, Truth Matters: A Dialogue on Fruitful Disagreement in an Age of Division

Plato’s Republic

Thomas Kuhn’s book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Eugene Genovese’s book, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made

Antonio Gramsci’s book, The Prison Notebooks

William Blake’s poem, “London”

Pope John Paul II’s encyclical, Fides et Ratio

Genesis 22, King James Version

Shakespeare’s Hamlet

Glenn’s memoir, Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative

Mandy Patinkin sings “Finishing the Hat” from Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George

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