Article 5S0RX The new anti-woke academics say the universities are 'broken'. But they aren't giving up their tenured day jobs | Julia Carrie Wong

The new anti-woke academics say the universities are 'broken'. But they aren't giving up their tenured day jobs | Julia Carrie Wong

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Julia Carrie Wong
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The anti-woke institution has no campus, no course catalog, no students, no accreditation. It does have a website

When the brand-new president of the University of Austin" announced the establishment of a brand-new institution dedicated to the fearless pursuit of truth" last week, he painted a bleak picture of American academia.

So much is broken in America," wrote Pano Kanelos, the former president of a small liberal arts college in Maryland in a post on the Substack of the noted New York Times self-canceller Bari Weiss. But higher education might be the most fractured institution of all."

Dorian Abbot, a University of Chicago scientist who has objected to aspects of affirmative action, was recently disinvited from delivering a prominent public lecture on planetary climate at MIT. Peter Boghossian, a philosophy professor at Portland State University, finally quit in September after years of harassment by faculty and administrators. Kathleen Stock, a professor at University of Sussex, just resigned after mobs threatened her over her research on sex and gender.

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