Author Azar Nafisi tells students to toughen up

Bird sitting with money inside cage, with an eagle refusing to enter. To illustrate Asian universities submitting to authority, especially if tied to funding, whereas Western counterparts have traditionally resisted coercion.

Can academic freedom survive in the new age of hard power?

While submitting to authority comes naturally to Asian universities, their Western counterparts have traditionally resisted coercion. But Donald Trump’s compact could change the game with the illusion of a freedom-restricting deal that is freely entered into, writes Saikat Majumdar

By Saikat Majumdar

17 November