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Monday, 29 June 2015

Disturbing the Peace: Intellectuals and Universities in an Illiberal Age



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The late great Tony Judt delivered this call-to-arms at the Boston College on February 6, 2007. 

Tony Judt, the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of European Studies at New York University, asserts that tenured university academics have a social obligation to “speak the truth in the public place.” In this Lowell Humanities Series lecture, he warns that public pressures and contemporary mores inhibit today’s intellectuals from espousing unpopular views. 

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