Stanford Academic Freedom Conference

Nationalism and the Culture Wars podcast · Dec 4, 2022 · 57m

Stanford Academic Freedom Conference, 'The State of Higher Education' panel, with John Ellis, Eric Kaufmann and Gad Saad, Nov 4-5, 2022 Academic freedom, open inquiry, and freedom of speech are under threat as they have not been for decades. Visibly, academics are “canceled,” fired, or subject to lengthy disciplinary proceedings in response to academic writing or public engagement. Less visibly, funding agencies, university bureaucracies, hiring procedures, promotion committees, professional organizations, and journals censor some kinds of research or demand adherence to political causes…