In this episode of Radio Free Campus, co-hosts Steve McGuire and Justin Garrison discuss pandemonium at U.C. Berkeley as Antifa tries to shut down a TPUSA event. They interview Sarah McLaughlin of FIRE to talk about her new book, Authoritarians in the Academy, which documents the ways foreign governments such as China and Qatar try to suppress free speech and academic freedom at American universities. Steve and Justin also discuss Cornell University’s settlement with the Trump administration and growing faculty use of AI in teaching. They also announce their latest “Hero of the People” and “Apparatchik of the Month” awards.
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