Ep 132 | Participation Trophies, Harvard’s Council on Academic Freedom, Why Is Dying So Expensive?
Ravi and Rikki start today’s episode with a healthy debate on participation trophies. Are these pointless plastic keepsakes ruining our childrens’ hopes of ever knowing what it truly means to be a winner? Three Republican state senators from North Carolina seem to think so, introducing a bill in the legislature to ban participation trophies in youth sports. Then, the duo sits down with Harvard philosophy professor Ned Hall to talk about the university’s new Council on Academic Freedom – an attempt from more than 100 faculty members to promote free speech and academic freedom on campus. Will…
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