Nationalism Course Podcast

Stanford Academic Freedom Conference, 'The State of Higher Education' panel, with John Ellis, Eric Kaufmann and Gad Saad, Nov 4-5, 2022 Academic freedom, open inquiry, and freedom of speech are under threat as they have not been for decades. Visibly, academics are “canceled,” fired, or subject to lengthy disciplinary proceedings in response to academic writing or public engagement. Less visibly, funding agencies, university bureaucracies, hiring procedures, promotion committees, professional organizations, and journals censor some kinds of research or demand adherence to political causes. Many parts of universities have become politicized or have turned into ideological monocultures, excluding people, ideas, or kinds of work that challenge their orthodoxy. Younger researchers are afraid to speak and write and don’t investigate promising ideas that they fear will endanger their careers. The two-day Academic Freedom Conference, arranged by the organizing committee, aims to identify ways to restore academic f