Is the university over? – spiked
Fortunately, 2021 has shown some signs that cultural change may slowly be taking place. The Free Speech Union has successfully defended both students and academics under attack for expressing their views. At Cambridge, professors called for a website that would have allowed students to report microaggressions anonymously to be taken down, and they won. Meanwhile, Jordan Peterson finally got to speak at Cambridge this year, two years after his invitation was withdrawn. Finally, in the US, the announcement of the University of Austin, a new university that will prize intellectual freedom, has given many people hope for the future of academia.
Perhaps the university is not dead yet.
The UK has some really creepy illustrations of cancel culture, even by US standards. This is just the somewhat optimistic conclusion of this piece. I hope 2022 is a better year. Perhaps it will be.