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How Dubious Racism Accusations Brought Down the Guggenheim Museum’s Top Curator

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The Role of Politics in Higher Education

Some of the most radicalized sectors, if you look at universities, it's like medieval studies or library sciences. Is it a kind of desperate casting about to be involved in what they see on social media, like a kind of professional version of FOMO? That's not how I see it. You know, there's a great thing about student politics, which is that it gets so tense because the stakes are so low. And also all the sectors you're mentioning are really interesting to me because they are seen as culturally extremely prestigious and desirable. So essentially there are entry levels extremely badly paid.

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