Sergiu Klainerman is Princeton University\u2019s most vocal and articulate dissident professor. Find out what this famed mathematician, a refugee from Communist Romania, thinks about (a) how the Marxist-Leninism education of his youth compares to the woke education of today, (b) the decline of academic freedom and intellectual meritocracy at Princeton and higher ed generally, and (c) the best way to reverse this decline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sergiu Klainerman is Princeton University\u2019s most vocal and articulate dissident professor. Find out what this famed mathematician, a refugee from Communist Romania, thinks about (a) how the Marxist-Leninism education of his youth compares to the woke education of today, (b) the decline of academic freedom and intellectual meritocracy at Princeton and higher ed generally, and […]","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":927,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","episode_type":"audio","audio_file":"http:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/cepa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2022\/11\/Kaplan-Nov-Podcast-Full.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"89.27M","filesize_raw":"93607967","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":""},"tags":[],"categories":[],"series":[2],"class_list":{"0":"post-1113","1":"podcast","2":"type-podcast","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"series-policymccombs","7":"entry"},"acf":{"related_episodes":"","hosts":[{"ID":572,"post_author":"42","post_date":"2020-07-03 19:47:46","post_date_gmt":"2020-07-03 19:47:46","post_content":"\n
Bryan Caplan is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center and a professor of economics at George Mason University. He specializes in public economics, public choice, psychology and economics, public opinion, economics of the family and education, genoeconomics, and Austrian economics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Caplan is the author of The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies<\/em>, named \u201cthe best political book of the year\u201d by the New York Times<\/em>, and Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent Is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think. <\/em>He is currently writing a new book: The Case Against Education: <\/em>A Professional Student Explains Why Our Education System Is a Big Waste of Time and Money<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Caplan has appeared on ABC\u2019s 20\/20<\/em>, Fox News, and C-SPAN, and his articles appear in the New York Times<\/em>,the Washington Post<\/em>,the Wall Street Journal<\/em>, American Economic Review<\/em>, Economic Journal<\/em>, the Journal of Law and Economics<\/em>,and Intelligence<\/em>. He writes EconLog<\/em><\/a>, named by the Wall Street Journal<\/em> as a top economics blog. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Caplan received his PhD in economics from Princeton University and his BA in economics from the University of California at Berkeley.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Bryan Caplan","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"bryan-caplan","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-07-03 19:47:47","post_modified_gmt":"2020-07-03 19:47:47","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/cepa\/?post_type=speaker&p=572","menu_order":0,"post_type":"speaker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"guests":"","transcript":""},"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/cepa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2021\/05\/SC_PolicyMcCombs_Art-scaled-1400.jpg","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/cepa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2021\/05\/SC_PolicyMcCombs_Art-scaled.jpg","download_link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/cepa\/podcast-download\/1113\/in-conversation-with-sergiu-klainerman.mp3","player_link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/cepa\/podcast-player\/1113\/in-conversation-with-sergiu-klainerman.mp3","audio_player":null,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"light","subscribeUrls":{"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"google_play":{"key":"google_play","url":"","label":"Google Play","class":"google_play","icon":"google-play.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"","label":"Google Podcasts","class":"google_podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"},"itunes":{"key":"itunes","url":"","label":"iTunes","class":"itunes","icon":"itunes.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/cepa\/feed\/podcast\/policymccombs","embedCode":"Bryan Caplan Interview\u2019s Princeton Dissident Sergiu Klainerman<\/a><\/blockquote>