So to Speak podcast: Bret Weinstein, professor in exile

Former Evergreen State College professor Bret Weinstein describes himself as a “professor in exile.” The evolutionary biologist left Evergreen last September in the fallout from the controversy surrounding the school’s planned Day of Absence programming.

Weinstein’s objection to the programming led fifty students to disrupt his class and demand his resignation. The backlash became so intense that Evergreen’s chief of police told him 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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