#6 - Academic Mobbing with Jonathan Haidt, Bret Weinstein & Rebecca Tuvel
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Debra speaks with three North American academics at the centre of debates about academic freedom and online mob behaviour: Jonathan Haidt is a moral psychologist, the co-founder of Heterodox Academy and the author, with Greg Lukianoff, of The Coddling of the American Mind; Bret Weinstein is an evolutionary theorist and former biology professor at Evergreen College; and Rebecca Tuvel is a philosophy professor at Rhodes College.
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