Jason Arday and the Threats to Academic Freedom with Tyler Austin Harper | RCI Pod #131

On this week’s episode of the RealClearInvestigations Podcast, RCI Editor J. Peder Zane and RCI Senior Reporter James Varney speak with Atlantic writer Tyler Austin Harper about his widely discussed, gracefully written articles – including a piece addressing the recent suicide of Cambridge Professor Jason Arday and another detailing why Harper left his tenure track job at Bates College – reporting how identity politics is undermining academic freedom.

On the news round-up, Zane and Varney discuss Wall Street Journal and Free Press articles on the pushback against data centers and AI, a ProPublica piece on some of the problem when public money is used to support private schools and a New Yorker article on a Nobel Prize-winning researcher who sexually abused dozens of the young people from Papua New Guinea that he studied.

Articles & Books Discussed in This Podcast:

· Tyler Austin Harper/Atlantic: The Truths That Failed Jason Arday

· Tyler Austin Harper/Atlantic: Why I Quit the Tenure Track

· Tyler Austin Harper/Atlantic: What Is the Mellon Foundation Doing to Higher Education?

· “Words For the Taking: The Hunt for a Plagiarist” by Neal Bowers

· Wall Street Journal: The 'Country Hicks' Who Refused $26M from AI Data Center

· Free Press: A City’s War on Surveillance Cameras

· ProPublica: Private Voucher Schools Face Little Accountability

· The New Yorker: The Nobel Laureate Who Experimented on Children