Ramsay’s Groupthink, by Nick Riemer
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The stock critiques made by Ramsay and its friends on the Right show how little it actually knows about the humanities
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The stock critiques made by Ramsay and its friends on the Right show how little it actually knows about the humanities
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Here, then, in Paris, in one of the heartlands of the Western tradition/logos, in one of the oldest universities in the world, there seems to have been a sense that the whole of existence was being newly lifted into the political.
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Wednesday was a bleak day for Australian universities, for freedom of speech and for democracy. On that day, the management of La Trobe University suspended from work Roz Ward, NTEU member and Safe Schools advocate, on serious misconduct charges. Her alleged offence? That she wrote, in a private Facebook post, that it would be good if the “racist” Australian flag flying over Parliament were one day to be replaced by the red flag. It is time for decent people, who believe in reasoned argument, freedom of speech, intellectual freedom and democracy to stand up against the deeply anti-democratic bullying of the Australian right, especially its media mouthpieces.
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Join the discussion to find ways to reclaim and reinvent public good universities.
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Public higher education needs defenders made of sterner stuff
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The moral crisis at the heart of the neoliberal university