Vanderbilt’s Provost Daniel Diermeier discusses the ideological erosion of universities—and the way to fix it

Vanderbilt’s Provost Daniel Diermeier discusses the ideological erosion of universities—and the way to fix it

I’m proffering you a must-watch video, at least if you’re interested in the rise and fall of American academia. Vanderbilt University, with its emphasis on free speech, academic freedom, and institutional neutrality, is rapidly becoming the University of Chicago of the South—or should I say that The University of Chicago is the Vanderbilt of the North? For Vanderbilt has been transformed since hiring the University of Chicago’s previous Provost,…