The Happy Warrior Remaking Higher Education - Will Inboden

Over recent decades, the American university has been on a conveyor belt toward higher costs, less intellectual diversity, and less relevance to contemporary American life. Will Inboden, a decorated historian of foreign policy and newly appointed provost of the University of Texas at Austin, is here to change that. Will and Peter discuss how higher education got into a rut, how universities can lead us out of it, the point of Shakespeare, and how to build lifelong friendships.   Timestamps 00:00:00 - Intro 00:02:30 - Why choose a career in academia 00:05:00 - Shaken public trust in institutions of higher learning 00:13:00 - The role of a university 00:16:50 - Academic freedom 00:20:26 - STEM research and the CCP 00:29:00 - Decline of the liberal arts 00:40:15 - The pursuit of truth 00:42:30 - Viewpoint diversity 00:48:00 - Life as provost   Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Host: Peter Robinson Peter Robinson Unbridled is a podcast of the Civitas Institute of the University of Texas at Austin Executive Producers:  Mat Hames Beth Hames Researcher: John Masko Producer: Laura Utt Editor: Josh Meyers Post Production: Jacob Estrada Camera: Josh Harwick, Nathan Jennings Music by Brandon Shufflebarger