The barbarians inside the campus gates | Yascha Mounk

The barbarians inside the campus gates | Yascha Mounk

America’s Ivy League universities have long been hotbeds of censorship and intolerance. Unpopular views are deplatformed, unorthodox professors are cancelled and research prioritises PC fads over facts. Donald Trump has vowed to force universities to clean up their act – but is he helping on hurting? Here, Yascha Mounk – editor of Persuasion and author of The Identity Trap – argues that Trump’s campus diktats are only stoking a woke backlash. Free speech and reason are just as imperilled as ever, he says. The university could now be in its death throes. Read spiked: ⁠https://www.spiked-online.com/⁠ Support spiked:⁠https://www.spiked-online.com/support/⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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