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Tyler Austin Harper

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“Academia is one of the only businesses, if you want to call it that, in this country, the enterprise of which is truth-telling.” — Tyler Austin Harper, Plain English with Derek Thompson

Harper's defence of why universities deserve harsher scrutiny than other institutions, not gentler: a bank that shades the truth is being a bank, but a university that does it has broken the one promise that justifies its existence.

Plain English with Derek Thompson · 2026-08-18 Context → Listen →

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