🚨Episode 17 of the podcast is out! 🚨

In my grad school days, I was able to see behind the curtain of academia. Some of it was encouraging, and a privilege to be a part of.

But a lot of it was very ugly.

I thought I was going to advance my knowledge of philosophy so I could eventually teach students some of the big questions that got me interested in philosophy in the first place. That sense of wonder and curiosity, and a toolbox that included critical thinking, argument rigor, precision, and clarity.

It quickly became clear that instead I needed to work 24/7 on my research, not on my teaching skills. To be successful (complete the program and have any hope of being employed), I needed to obsess over writing articles that get published in good academic journals.

That was an initial shock to the system.

But I also found out I needed to do the right kind of research. The kind of research that philosophy departments were looking for needed to include some kind of social justice angle. The job applications required me to write about how my philosophical work helped marginalized communities.

All this time I thought I was just trying to do a deep dive in metaphysics and language.

That was a second shock to the system.

I remember sitting in PhD seminars, listening to one side of the political aisle get celebrated while the other got demonized, and wondering why it was suddenly acceptable to throw high standards for argument and rigor out the window.

It was all packaged as ways to fight injustice against minorities or something, but the most conservative grad student in those seminars was a minority. Just not the right kind of minority, apparently.

Academia is in trouble. The public has lost trust in our academic institutions, and in many cases for good reason.

So I wanted to talk to Dr. Brandon Warmke, currently Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University, and starting this fall Associate Professor of Humanities at the Hamilton School of Classical and Civic Education at the University of Florida. Dr. Warmke has authored many articles and books, and has been a vocal critic of academia and its unethical ideology and practices.

We covered philosophers’ political double standards for rigor, ideological discrimination, ethical and unethical approaches to teaching controversial topics, the importance of forgiveness, and much more.

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