Free Kiwis!

James talks to Fred Attenborough, Research Manager at the UK Committee for Academic Freedom, about the recent ruling in a landmark academic freedom case, University of Sussex vs. Office for Students. Will the ruling fatally weaken the Office for Students, which the new UK academic freedom legislation empowers to regulate universities, before the the new academic freedom regime even gets going?
Freddie has a number of pieces on this case up on the CAF website: https://afcomm.org.uk/author/frederick-attenborough/

Mitchell Palmer is an economist at the Adam Smith Institute. We talked to him about his journey from Auckland to London via Singapore and Oxford; how to reform the UK student loan system; and the recent past and near future of the ACT Party. 
Mitchell's report on student loans: https://www.adamsmith.org/research/credit-crunch
Peter Ainsworth's IEA report on student loans: https://iea.org.uk/publications/shares-in-students-a-new-model-for-university-funding/

Sarah McLaughlin is Senior Scholar, Global Expression at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). We talked to her about threats to free speech from various quarters (including the Trumpian right, the progressive left, the CCP and UAE) and about how to build a healthy and consistent free speech culture. Sarah was in New Zealand courtesy of the NZ  Free Speech Union.
Sarah's book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Authoritarians-Academy-Internationalization-Borderless-Censorship/dp/1421452804

Ilana Redstone is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne. She talked to James about the state of sociology, 'the certainty trap' of ideological extremism, and how much of today's progressive extremism can be traced back to the civil rights era.

Ilana's book *The Certainty Trap*: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Certainty-Trap-Question-Ourselves-More/dp/1634312562

Richard Hanania's essay 'Woke Institutions is Just Civil Rights Law': https://www.richardhanania.com/p/woke-institutions-is-just-civil-rights

Michael Ben-Gad is Professor of Economics at City St. George's University in London. He talks to James about a student campaign against him, the roots of some modern students' intolerance, and his recent research paper linking public debt and immigration. 

Michael's paper 'On the Political Economy of Deficit Bias and Immigration':
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecoj.12502