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So to Speak podcast: Bret Weinstein, professor in exile
Former Evergreen State College professor Bret Weinstein describes himself as a 鈥減rofessor in exile.鈥 The evolutionary biologist last September in the fallout from the controversy surrounding the school鈥檚 planned programming.
Weinstein鈥檚 objection to the programming led fifty students to disrupt his class and demand his resignation. The backlash became so intense that Evergreen鈥檚 chief of police she could not protect him from protesters. As a result, he had to hold his biology course in a public park.
On this episode of So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, we speak with Weinstein about his experience and the state of free speech and inquiry in higher education and beyond.
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