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With many despairing academics packing it in, who will solve the problem of the universities?

Something is seriously amiss when such a courageous and independent-minded professor as Matt Goodwin feels he no longer belongs in the system

7 June 2025

9:00 AM

7 June 2025

9:00 AM

Mindless: What Happened to the Universities? Cary Nelson

Jewish Quarterly, pp.130, 15.99

Bad Education: Why Our Universities Are Broken and How We Can Fix Them Matt Goodwin

Bantam, pp.256, 15.99

Whatever happened to universities, beacons of the liberal enlightenment? Well, according to both these authors, they are in deep trouble. Cary Nelson is a distinguished literature academic who for six years was president of the American Association of University Professors, set up in 1915 by John Dewey to advance standards of excellence and academic freedom.

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