universities

11 statements across 7 episodes · 2 bullish · 6 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Jul 22, 2021 by Joe Lonsdale · across every show →

Everything said about universities, oldest first

Jul 22, 2021 negative
Assertion Supported
Lonsdale: US Subsidizes Higher Education Cartel With $110B in Title IV Funding
“Well, it's a cartel, and it's a cartel we subsidize with a hundred, ten billion a year of Title IV funding, right?”
Joe Lonsdale Jul 22, 2021 ▶ 13:03 Billion Dollar Wins -- and Losses · Joe Lonsdale
Jul 22, 2021 negative
Opinion
Jaswa: 95% single-party university faculty harms broad critical thinking
“I do think it's problematic that these universities, you know, 95% of the faculty vote for one party. That's, strikes me as not a healthy environment to, not conducive to teaching people kind of broad thinking.”
Sujay Jaswa Jul 22, 2021 ▶ 35:59 Billion Dollar Wins -- and Losses · Joe Lonsdale
Feb 10, 2022 negative
Opinion
Kanelos: Modern Universities Suffer From Schizophrenia Over Truth
“Universities today have a kind of schizophrenia. They believe both of these incompatible things at the same time.”
Pano Kanelos Feb 10, 2022 ▶ 7:16 Joe Lonsdale and Pano Kanelos on Building a New World-Class University · Joe Lonsdale
Feb 10, 2022 negative
Opinion
Kanelos: Every US Institution Is Failing to Transcend Tribalism
“Every institution in this country is failing to do that, and, but universities, I think, have an obligation more than other institutions to strive to transcend that.”
Pano Kanelos Feb 10, 2022 ▶ 14:57 Joe Lonsdale and Pano Kanelos on Building a New World-Class University · Joe Lonsdale
Feb 10, 2022 neutral
Insight
Kanelos: Universities Are Not Generic Free Speech Platforms
“Universities are not platforms for free speech. All of society is a platform for free speech. We have that right. Universities are platforms for learning, and so if there's a topic that needs to be discussed that's difficult, if there's a person who's presenti…”
Pano Kanelos Feb 10, 2022 ▶ 19:00 Joe Lonsdale and Pano Kanelos on Building a New World-Class University · Joe Lonsdale
Feb 10, 2022 positive
Insight
Kanelos: Focusing on Timeless Human Questions Builds University Trust
“What universities should do is begin with the big human questions, you know, get, bring your students and faculty together pull back from the day to day concerns that we have and think about what it means to be a human being. What is human nature? What is Libe…”
Pano Kanelos Feb 10, 2022 ▶ 15:35 Joe Lonsdale and Pano Kanelos on Building a New World-Class University · Joe Lonsdale
Feb 16, 2022 negative
Insight
Cowen: The tenure process selects for extreme risk aversion
“The hoops you have to jump through to get tenure, it's so selecting for risk-averse.”
Tyler Cowen Feb 16, 2022 ▶ 26:15 Reviving a Culture of Innovation with Tyler Cowen · Joe Lonsdale
May 23, 2024 positive
Opinion
Lonsdale: University Students Should Experience Microaggressions and Practice Being Offended
“I think all of the kids coming to university should get practice being offended. I think it's actually healthy for them to You know, we call it microaggressions. I think we should have all of them experience microaggressions. They need to learn that it's okay …”
Joe Lonsdale May 23, 2024 ▶ 23:52 Ep 90: A Conversation with Wall Street Pioneer Ethan Penner · Joe Lonsdale
Oct 18, 2024
Disclosure
Greenblatt: ADL Will Expand Campus Antisemitism Report Card to ~140 Schools
“I can tell you we're re, we're doing the next version in March. It'll expand to 135, 140 schools. So we're almost going to double it.”
Jonathan Greenblatt Oct 18, 2024 ▶ 33:25 Jonathan Greenblatt on Ta-Nehisi Coates, CRT, and woke politics · Joe Lonsdale
Jul 3, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Andreessen: Universities and employers hire African immigrants over African Americans
“Both the universities and the corporate employers are literally, this is true. They're literally, they literally import Africans so that they don't have to hire African Americans. Because they still count as black.”
Marc Andreessen Jul 3, 2025 ▶ 27:36 From ChatGPT to Billions of Robots: Marc Andreessen’s Prediction · Joe Lonsdale
Sep 25, 2025
Disclosure
Lonsdale and Network Are Founding New Universities and Policy Groups
“We're starting universities, you know, policy groups to fight for things that help lift up lives.”
Joe Lonsdale Sep 25, 2025 ▶ 36:43 What Happens When AI Can Do Every Job? · Joe Lonsdale
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