Today, Texas A&M resumes classes for the spring semester—but a number of canonized texts will not be welcomed back to school. The public research university has lately been caught in the crossf…
We aren’t at the Khmer Rouge stage where the government sets their students against their professors, but - never say never. The conservatives have a long, simmering hatred of intellectuals. Sure, they are a fringe minority, but it doesn’t take the majority to seize power and completely ruin the place.
How do you ban a philosophical concept? Plato is going full Streisand effect in 3 2 1…
Tyrannical regimes certainly do try.
We aren’t at the Khmer Rouge stage where the government sets their students against their professors, but - never say never. The conservatives have a long, simmering hatred of intellectuals. Sure, they are a fringe minority, but it doesn’t take the majority to seize power and completely ruin the place.