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Kresta in the Afternoon – January 24, 2024 – Hour 1

Guest Host Marcus Peter discusses the good news and bad news about Catholic Schools with Kevin Murphy, and Greg Lukianoff gives us a solution to the problems of Cancel Culture.

 

What did Pope Benedict say about Catholic Schools?

Next week we will commemorate Catholic Schools Week. Pope Benedict once wrote that “not even the greatest values of the past can simply be inherited; they must be claimed and renewed through an often anguishing personal option.” What is the state of Catholic education in America? Kevin Murphy joins us from the Cardinal Newman Society.

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Pope Benedict’s Letter on Education 

Cardinal Newman Society 

Kevin Murphy is Vice President of Marketing and Communications at the Cardinal Newman Society. Visit cardinalnewmansociety.org.

Sick of Cancel Culture? There is a Solution

Since the year 2000, Greg Lukianoff’s Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression has tracked instances of free-speech violations on US college campuses. The numbers back up what many of us suspect: since 2014, there has been a massive uptick in campaigns to investigate or punish scholars for “unacceptable” views, resulting in almost 200 firings and hundreds of other sanctions. This is completely antithetical to what we once believed was the purpose of higher education – to expose one to opposing views and opinions – but thankfully there is a solution. Greg joins us.

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How American Colleges Gave Birth to Cancel Culture

How to raise cancel-proof kids

FIRE foundation website 

Greg Lukianoff is the co-author of “The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All―But There Is a Solution” and “The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure.” He’s the president and CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) and one of the country’s most passionate defenders of free expression. Greg has written on free-speech issues in the nation’s top newspapers, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post, and was executive producer of the documentaries Can We Take a Joke? . Lukianoff earned his undergraduate degree from American University and his law degree from Stanford. He worked for the ACLU of Northern California, the Organization for Aid to Refugees, and the EnvironMentors Project before joining FIRE in 2001. Follow him on Twitter @glukianoff and learn more about his work at thefire.org
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