How to Rebuild American Universities: Jacob Howland

🔵 Try Epoch Times now: https://ept.ms/3Uu1JA5

This is the 30 minute TV version of Jan Jekielek’s interview with Jacob Howland. The longer-form version was released on Epoch TV on June 5, 2025.

🔴 Watch the extended version of this episode: https://ept.ms/4dLTasq

“When we are dispersed and we interact with other human beings only online, and the algorithms feed back our preferences and desires to us, what it effectively does is kind-of isolate us in these multiple sub caves.”

Jacob Howland is the provost of the University of Austin, a new, private liberal arts university that is pushing back against censorship and politically popular narratives in higher education.
As dean of the Intellectual Foundations program, Howland gives students a comprehensive education in the Western tradition, emphasizing both “Athens and Jerusalem,” he says.

“After communism fell, it’s as if the historical amnesia had removed the capacity of those who were still around to reckon with the past,” he says. “There are inexhaustible resources in the tradition, and if we’re going to find our way forward, we’ve got to understand the past.”

CHAPTER TITLES
0:00:00 - Introduction: The Digital Cave of Isolation
0:00:53 - America's Political Landscape: A Moment of Transformation
0:07:02 - Totalitarian Societies and the Atomization of People
0:12:45 - The University of Austin: Rebuilding Institutional Foundations
0:21:57 - Technology, Faith, and Finding True North
0:23:19 - Conclusion: Understanding the Past to Navigate the Future

🔵 Sign up for the American Thought Leaders ALERTS newsletter to stay up-to-date on new episodes, releases, and special events 👉 https://ept.ms/ATLnewsletter

💛 Support us 👉https://donorbox.org/american-thought-leaders
-------------------------------------------------
© All Rights Reserved.