For John Ellis of the University of California at Santa Cruz, the American university has become hopelessly corrupted by
left-wing radicalism, with its legacy mission of truth-seeking now
eclipsed by the pursuit of “social-justice” activism. Progressive
academics often dismiss these charges as anecdotal, but survey evidence
tells a different story. In August, I coauthored a report with leading
U.K. think tank Policy Exchange on academic freedom in the U.K.
that was widely covered in the British press. It shows that
no-platforming and attempts to cancel the jobs and reputations of
professors are just the tip of an iceberg of intellectual repression on
campus. Ideological uniformity and political bias combine with
academics’ fear of being cancelled to create a toxic atmosphere,
especially for conservative and, in the context of transgender issues,
“gender-critical” dissenters.........To Read More....
Academic freedom is in serious trouble in the English-speaking world.
Episodes involving no-platforming, Twitter mobs, and efforts to dismiss professors make
news regularly. The threat to academic freedom overwhelmingly stems
from the identity-oriented Left inside universities, though it can also come from the off-campus Right.
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