Academic Freedom Under Fire | the New Yorker
“There’s a generalised disrespect for skill,” argues Professor Catherine Liu.
Once seen as temples of knowledge and free thought, universities are now under fire. Two-thirds of academics say their freedom is being restricted. In 2022, UK universities saw over 1,000 cases of content warnings or censorship, while PhD... See more
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Nesrine Malik • We Need New Stories: The Myths that Subvert Freedom
A conservative Harvard professor critiques the university's failure to foster debate and its silencing of conservative voices.
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One thing that makes Kit conspicuous is this. He's one of the few Harvard professors known to be conservative, to vote Republican.
I voted for President Trump the first time because I needed him to end the war in Afghanistan, and he promised to do that. I didn't think I was going to have any peace in my own life until that war,
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