Northwestern University President Morton Schapiro and Professor Gary Saul Morson are the Authors of Minds Wide Shut: How the New Fundamentalisms Divide Us join Skoo Walker and Pete Jansons to chat about their latest book as well as other issues facing society 

Quotes:

GSM " You cannot make people less extreme by insulting them" (Hillary Clinton)

GSM/MS "Trump was a symptom, not a cause"

GSM "You look for the best argument from the other side, not the worst"

MS/GSM/Tolstoy/Game of Thrones "In a world filled with uncertainty what matters most is not the plant but alertness... And for Alertness you need sleep"

MS "  NU is 75k All in and 1/3 of NU Students pay less than 10% of that price. 10-15% of all private/non for profit/universities pay full price tuition

GSM "It would not surprise me if in 10 years we will be going to Russia for freedom... not because they are freer but because we will be worse off than they will be"

MS "Jan 6th will be the low point of America for generations"

GSM "My job is to get kids to love literature"

MS " Blanket forgiving of Student Debt would be very regressive"

Topics:

• President Schapiro will be ending his 22 year run as NU President next year (when the average is 6.5 years)
• The decline in respectable dialogue
• What event can bring the USA together?
• Liberal Bias by professors?
• MOOC Massive Open Online Courses
• Flipped Classroom
• Cents and Sensibility: What Economics Can Learn from the Humanities
• 1.6 Billion in Student Loan Debt

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691214917/minds-wide-shut

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691183220/cents-and-sensibility

Have an idea for a topic or guest? [email protected]