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The closing of the university mind

The closing of the university mind

It's why so many, in institutions across the board, are now so incompetent

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Melanie Phillips
Aug 12, 2022
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The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters; Goya, 1799

The Times reported this week on the deeply alarming findings (£) of a survey it had conducted at Britain’s universities.

It found that ten of them, including three from the elite Russell Group, had started removing books from reading lists or made them optional to protect students from “challenging” conten…

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