The lost honour of the life of the mind

Fred Inglis on the fate of the academy in an era of calm-voiced propaganda and disgusting new shapes of intellectual life

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May 19, 2016

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Reader's comments (1)

#1 Submitted by mjhughes01 on May 24, 2016 - 7:15am

Great spoof on the kind of absurd left-wing claptrap heard in our universities. It is a spoof isn't it? I hope.

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