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The Autocrats’ War on Universities - Why the far-right always targets academia and what academics can do about it (www.project-syndicate.org)
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A very important article. Everyone should read it.

The author is a respected scholar. Jan-Werner Mueller is probably the world's best expert on populism.

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[-] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

universities are also destroying themselves from within the past 50 years. they are now run by MBA mentalities of the administrators who only care about lining their own own pockets, hitting metrics, and chasing US news rankings.

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