Marshall Matters Podcast
Peter Boghossian on the indoctrination of the academy, and how new-atheists cleared the way for woke
In September 2021, Peter Boghossian published his resignation letter from Portland State University. He’d already been challenging popular grievance studies, famously with the Sokal Squared Hoax in which he had a paper arguing that the “conceptual penis” caused climate change pass peer review. But by the end, he believed, the university had “sacrificed ideas for ideology”.
Having left his role as professor he has taken to the world, and the streets, challenging the excesses of progressive thought. He has become somewhat of an itinerant anti-woke philosopher.
We discuss the state of the academy, the history of woke, DEI versus free speech, how the new-atheists caused cleared the path for the pseudo-religions of the age, and much more.
A lovely man and a fascinating conversation.
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Thanks Peter,
WM
I thoroughly enjoyed that. I especially liked your pushback at the end re. a metaphysic and values systems.
This gave me hope for change in our Universities. The ending was thought provoking. You did a great job interviewing him.