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Barry Cooper: Empire of Fear: How the Pandemic Made a Canadian University Lose Its Mind

Barry Cooper: Empire of Fear: How the Pandemic Made a Canadian University Lose Its Mind
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Universities have traditionally been the home and sponsor of critics and commentators, but as institutions they are neither critics nor commentators. Like the Governor General, the university has no official position on controversial social and political policies. Nor does the institution pick one such policy and impose it on its members. As for university professors, traditionally they have sought to bring logic and evidence to illuminate obscure problems and to speak the truth about what they see.

Barry Cooper
Barry Cooper
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Dr. Barry Cooper is a professor of political science at the University of Calgary, author of 35 books and 200 studies, and is a senior fellow with the Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy and the Royal Society of Canada.
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