Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Can government intervention fix biased university departments? This clip from Heterodox Out Loud features Jukka Savolainen discussing the Danish government's intervention in Copenhagen University's sociology departments in the 1980s. Savolainen describes how the government, frustrated with ideological capture and a lack of empirical rigor, dismantled and rebuilt the departments.
Watch the full episode here: youtu.be/QAUiO1S07lE
Can government intervention fix biased university departments? This clip from Heterodox Out Loud features Jukka Savolainen discussing the Danish government's intervention in Copenhagen University's sociology departments in the 1980s. Savolainen describes how the government, frustrated with ideological capture and a lack of empirical rigor, dismantled and rebuilt the departments.
Watch the full episode here: youtu.be/QAUiO1S07lE










