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| Subject: Roger Scruton is right to highlight political bias in universities – here's what we can do about it Mon May 20, 2019 1:43 am | |
| Last week I went to an academic conference at Oxford to discuss how best to protect free speech on campus. It was hosted by Nigel Biggar, the theology professor who was targeted by an outrage mob 18 months ago for daring to suggest the British Empire wasn’t “an unbroken litany of oppression, exploitation and self-deception”, and was attended by several academics who’ve lost their jobs for expressing unorthodox views. One of these was Dr Noah Carl, the young conservative scholar who had his fellowship terminated by St Edmund’s College, Cambridge last month at the behest of left-wing protestors.
Roger Scruton has suggested that the state should simply stop funding university humanities departments.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/05/16/roger-scruton-right-highlight-political-bias-universities/
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