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Academia Has Fallen - Dr Paul A. Taylor
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Postmodernism and the Commissar and the Yogi
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Universities have created institutions within the university where you don't have to be that good. You can climb the greasy pole by being a commissar, by enforcing language codes. I think Leeds has now got some harassment unit. But guess what? When you have a unit devoted to finding harassment, you'll know this from the Soviet example. Guess what? An awful lot of harassment is found because they have to justify their own existence. It doesn't matter if they believe in it. So this concept of belief, there are various fascinating postmodern ways of thinking about it. A young child, and I'm guessing he is Nikolay, isn't he? He doesn't know
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