University of Austin, una nuova università

Grade inflation. Spiraling costs. Corruption and racial discrimination in admissions. Junk content (“Grievance Studies”) published in risible journals. Above all, the erosion of academic freedom and the ascendancy of an illiberal “successor ideology” known to its critics as wokeism, which manifests itself as career-ending “cancelations” and speaker disinvitations, but less visibly generates a pervasive climate of anxiety and self-censorship. [...] That is why this week I am one of a group of people announcing the founding of a new university — indeed, a new kind of university: the University of Austin. [...] Trigger warnings. Safe spaces. Preferred pronouns. Checked privileges. Microaggressions. Antiracism. All these terms are routinely deployed on campuses throughout the English-speaking world as part of a sustained campaign to impose ideological conformity in the name of diversity. As a result, it often feels as if there is less free speech and free thought in the American university today than in almost any other institution in the U.S. Niall Ferguson, WP

Nel suo lungo e appassionato articolo Niall Ferguson spiega il programma di questa nuova università, un progetto che sembra molto interessante. Auguri!