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April 5, 2022: John Eastman’s impact on CU Conservative program; Climate change & politics
- Segment 1 | 10:59
CU’s Conservative Scholar Program aims to broaden thought and policy
- Segment 2 | 28:21
NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe on covering the White House and diversity
The conservative scholar program at CU Boulder was created to hire professors with conservative leanings, but John Eastman has been a lightning rod. We speak with the founder of the program, Robert Pasnau. Then, a new U.N. report finds that politics is a major barrier toward addressing climate change. And NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with KRCC's Abigail Beckman about covering the White House and diversity.