This is not an isolated assault on the campus as a centre of national life. Populist authoritarians—including Viktor Orbán in Hungary, Recep Tayyip Erdo?an in Turkey, Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel, and our own Narendra Modi—have sought to vilify universities as the “other,” portraying them as incubators of subversion and “anti-national” thinking. In this paranoid populist imagination, the leader is the repository of the national culture while liberals and leftists are the foreign virus. The one ringleader to rule them all— billionaire populist Elon Musk—has referred to this as the “woke mind virus”. His more mindless fans have seized on the...
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