Ep. 32 Tyler Cowen on the complacent campus

George Mason University Professor Tyler Cowen has spent the
better part of the last 40 years on college campuses. That’s why
when he wrote in his new book “The Complacent Class: The
Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream” that college
campuses are “among the segments of American society where the
complacent class exercises its strongest influence,” we wanted to
learn more.


On today’s episode of So to Speak, we ask professor Cowen why he
believes college campuses are complacent and what impact, if any,
this has on recent campus debates about freedom of speech.


Joining host Nico Perrino in quizzing professor Cowen about the
implications his thesis has for free speech is FIRE President and
CEO Greg Lukianoff, who is also curious about some of professor
Cowen’s other areas of expertise — economics and food.


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