PS there are over 1,500 billionaires in the world, and I'm not thinking of any one in particular. A consortium of them could easily do this.
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For students & academics only: If a visionary billionaire built a new kind of university founded on radical free speech, viewpoint diversity, robust debate, and intellectual merit, would you be interested in studying or working there?
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I think in some sense almost all of these principles are seen as fairly traditional standards of a quality college education. Given that, what’s “new” about this kind of university?
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There's no university in the US that comes close to enacting these values. Not at the moment
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Free speech as
#1A intended it, which is considered 'radical' on most campuses today.
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Nailed it. Too often demanding “radical free speech” is code for “I want to say unsavory things without social consequences”
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Have you looked at Quest University?
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I haven't, but I will. Thanks.
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Free speech/etc is desirable. That said, I'm not sure its enough to attract top students away from traditional universities. More effective path would be for such a person to get on the board of a university and change it from within. Pressure Harvard by changing Yale
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also viewpoint diversity for its own sake is misguided. It’s important to have viewpoint diversity but only as it flows naturally from some common standard of rigor, erudition, method, etc
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