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Why is there more intellectual freedom in Bucharest than Cambridge?

26 November 2019

7:00 PM

26 November 2019

7:00 PM

‘You can talk about anything you like,’ said Radu, a young Romanian academic when he invited me to a conference in Bucharest. The theme was ‘Real liberty or new serfdom?’ marking the anniversary of the fall of Nicolae Ceauşescu 30 years ago. The audience was made up of Romanian undergraduates.

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