Mindless

<h3><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Extremism antisemitism and intolerance are thriving on campus. How did this happen?</span></h3><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Some programmes are well on their way to running Zionists out of their unit. That will put an end to complaints of antisemitism. --Cary Nelson</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>After October 7 the university - an institution dedicated to the search for truth knowledge and freedom - became overrun by a toxic and dangerous fervour. Civil discourse was abandoned as campuses became the epicentre of hate speech conspiracy theories and antisemitism. Yet as Cary Nelson reveals this betrayal of the university's ideals was decades in the making.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>In this groundbreaking essay Nelson an academic and writer whose years of involvement in university organisations has made him a leading expert on higher education explains the causes of the institutional failure that has been evident on campuses worldwide. </span><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Mindless</em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> shows how universities came to abandon a commitment to shared intellectual principles and fractured into disciplines that - unconstrained and unchecked - slid towards conformity and indoctrination.</span></p>