University professors afraid to teach controversial subjects for fear of being sacked, conference hears

Campus events of the past few years have highlighted the sad reality of contemporary university.  Far from being bastions of free speech, universities are often giving in to a mob mentality, from the events at Middlebury and Evergreen State, to the treatment of Tony Esolen and Jordan Peterson.

These are, however, among the more sensational and lurid events.

The less publicized reality is, as a recent conference heard, that universities are now ruled by a “culture of censorious quietude” where academics were not able to discuss “anything difficult.”

The situation is now reaching a critical phase.  If academic freedom can no longer be safeguarded in the university, then public confidence in the value of university education must invariably fall.  Along with the exorbitant cost of higher education, politicians can no longer ignore the mess.

The problem is that politics in the West is largely governed by the same agenda of political correctness that is ruining the universities.

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