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Steven Pinker Dialogue

The Munk Debates Podcast

CHAPTER

The State of Universities

Universities have a responsibility to secure the credibility of science and scholarship, says Stephen. Data show that universities have become increasingly politically and ideologically narrow tat their becoming left wing monoculture. There is growing intolerance at the idea that people who express views should have a platform or forum. Journal editors succumbing to pressure from social media to withdraw controversial articles are putting academic discourse into disrepute.

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