How Universities Lost Their Way, With Cary Nelson

Unorthodox by Tablet Magazine

Mar 20, 202538:31Religion & Spirituality

Universities are meant to be spaces of free inquiry, knowledge, and rigorous debate. But according to academic and writer Cary Nelson, they’ve instead become hotbeds of ideological conformity—long before October 7. In hi...

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