Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler to look at Hoover’s legacy, Stewart Resnick’s farms, the presidency left in shambles for Donald Trump, how red-state universities are still DEI infused, the worst VP-pick in history, Zuckerberg’s convenient mea-culpa, and Classics in education.
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The discussion on Mark Zuckerberg’s sister purchasing, wokifying, and demolishing a classics magazine was something else! It also reminded me to put “Who Killed Homer?” on my Amazon Wish List.
Victor’s discussion on setting up a Classics Curriculum made me curious, as I took Latin in High School- What textbook (Wheelock?) did he use for the teaching of Latin?
I admire that you taught students to give lectures without notes. How is that accomplished, VDH?
You model it superbly.
The over-administration at universities is hardly new. Was at Cal State 40 years ago. Still don’t know exactly what a “provost” does, but our campus had several. There was a bit of a scandal once as one of them took a job as an interim president of another nearby university that was having problems while not relinquishing his job as provost at ours. The guy came out and said that being president at another university (one that was “troubled”, no less) would not interfere with his responsibilities as provost at ours. At the time, a provost was making around 6-figures with benefits, which was very good pay in the later-’80s.
I don’t have problems with people making good money if they’re putting in a measurable 40 hours or more of quality work. However, if this guy had the spare time to become president of another university after his work at ours was done, I seriously doubt that his job at ours was all that demanding.
Hence my skepticism about what provosts really do.
I’m afraid “fifty million geniuses (genii?)” is optimistic. Genius IQ = 3 standard deviations above normal = 0.15 x 0.15 x 0.15. Total US population = 341,210,000 approximate. 78% are adults. That gives an estimated number of American geniuses age 18 and over = 89,823 approximate.
Wonderful discussion. There are so few honest intellectuals. Thank you.