099 “A Conversation w/ Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying”




The Fifth Column - Analysis, Commentary, Sedition show

Summary: <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">(Recorded April 22nd, 2018)</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A conversation with evolutionary biologists Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">- On Free Speech, Campus Culture<br></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">- Identity</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">- Scientific Investigation &amp; Tabboo Topics<br></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">- The Intellectual Dark Web<br>- Evolution, Culture, Markets, Media, and The Academy </span></p><br> <p> </p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In </span><strong>THE SUMMER OF 2017</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Bret Weinstein found himself at the center of an </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">‘equity and inclusion’</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> maelstrom at Evergreen State College, where he and his wife Heather Heying were both members of the faculty. The resulting scandal would result in the couple parting ways with the school, but not before attracting the attention of national media. Bret and Heather are currently unaffiliated academics in exile who frequently write and speak about their experience at evergreen, the state of American campuses and a host of increasingly controversial issues related to their principal field of study.<br><br>The pair dropped by the studio to chop it up with Matt Welch and Kmele Foster.</span></p>