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Academia Becomes More Ideological, More Coercive

Academia Becomes More Ideological, More Coercive
The McGill University campus in Montreal on Nov. 14, 2017. The Canadian Press/Ryan Remiorz
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Universities as a community of autonomous scholars delving into knowledge and seeking to expand it is a model that’s long out of date. With the explosive growth of university, scientific, and granting agency bureaucracies, coercive oversight and imposition have grown by magnitudes.

Philip Carl Salzman
Philip Carl Salzman
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Philip Carl Salzman is professor emeritus of anthropology at McGill University, senior fellow at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, fellow at the Middle East Forum, and Past President of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East.
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