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September 19, 2024

How Universities Went Astray, and How They Could Be Saved

What October 7 clarified.

Considering the current degraded state of American higher education, Yuval Levin looks back at the campus upheavals of the 1970s, when “the people running the university were gradually choosing to cooperate with the people who wanted to burn it down.” Yet while the revolutionaries who took over the institutions in the last quarter of the 20th century saw themselves as pioneers of free speech, the universities became increasingly censorious and intolerant—so much so that many conservative critics have come to see freedom of speech as the solution to these ills. But that’s not quite right, argues Levin:

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