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Commentary By Eric Kaufmann

Universities Are Losing the Battle on Free Speech

Education Education, Higher Ed

Examples of institutional pushback pale in comparison to broader trends

Is the era of woke censorship coming to an end on campus? The New York TimesWashington Post and CNN, among others, are heralding a new epoch in which university leaders stand up to snowflake students. While it’s encouraging that progressive legacy media outlets are nailing their free speech colours to the mast, these are counter-wavelets on the surface of a rising swell. Progressive illiberalism is not going anywhere because it is baked into the demography of tomorrow’s professors.

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Eric Kaufmann is professor of politics at Birkbeck College, University of London and an adjunct fellow of the Manhattan Institute.

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