Have universities become bastions of ideology instead of truth?

Over the past decade, critics argue that identity politics and censorship have stifled academic freedom, while others say these concerns are overstated. This debate explores whether initiatives for justice and inclusion of historically excluded voices actually strengthen academia’s truth-seeking mission or risk replacing critical inquiry with moral conformity—and what kind of intellectual culture universities should build for the future. 

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Featuring: 

Dorian Abbot: Professor of Geophysics at the University of Chicago 

Pablo Avelluto: Former Minister of Culture of Argentina 

Omer Bartov: Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University 

Mohammad Fadel: Professor of Law at the University of Toronto