The rise of the comfort college | Curio

The rise of the comfort college

15 mins | Sep 22, 2019

Part 1: A professor's account of being labelled an 'Enemy of the People' for wanting to discuss free speech. In elite private colleges across America, the pursuit of knowledge is being replaced by the quest for power - warns professor Steven B. Gerrard. Writing in Bloomberg he recounts Williams College's "year of horror" as liberalism and woke-ness battled it out in the debate over free speech. The second part to this piece, "How comfort conquered college", is also available on Curio.

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