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Tiffany Jenkins on Plunder, Museums, and Marbles

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Isn't the C University a Temple of Scholarship?

Tiffany: I think it's going to be the case that culture swings between various un-nuanced interpretations of history. And universities, which were temples of scholarship and education in the old days, just like museums were temples of historical memory and education, now they serve a different purpose. But who knows if I'm right, the argument is that they serve our identity or our sense of who we are or a cultural force that's necessary as a tone meant for a past injustice.

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