Dr. Matthew Wielicki recently made news when he announced that he would be leaving his tenure-track professorship in the Geological Sciences department of the University of Alabama. I talk with Dr. Wielicki about why he made this decision and how even the sciences are being corrupted by wokeness. We also discuss the hysteria surrounding climate alarmism.

Dr. Matthew Wielicki, Prof. of Geological Science, University of Alabama

"Whither the Looniversity?" is a series of videos and podcasts that constitute an ongoing discussion about the woke culture of the modern university and other challenges facing higher education. Hosted by Adam Ellwanger, a professor of rhetoric at the University of Houston - Downtown, the show features professors, administrators, and students who have unique ideas about how to restore intellectual culture -- whether inside institutional settings or out of them. Each episode focuses on the same 3 questions, asked of every guest (in addition to other questions): 1) How did the decline of the American university occur? 2) Can the American university be rehabilitated? 3) If it can be rehabilitated, how? If it cannot be rehabilitated, then what is to be done?

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Dr. Matthew Wielicki, Prof. of Geological Science, University of Alabama

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