The repentance of intellectuals
The repentance of intellectuals
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Polybius saw the history of regimes as a moral cycle: democracy degenerates into ochlocracy when virtue disappears. Today, the loss of elite training and the decline of universities recall this mechanism: without education, freedom collapses and the crowd rules in place of reason.
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The collective work Critique de la raison universitaire, edited by Arnaud Bernadet, explores how certain identity-based, managerial, and activist ideologies undermine the foundations of science, reason, and academic freedom within Western universities, particularly in Canada and France. Through contributions from various academics, the book denounces the erosion of intellectual pluralism caused by censorship, EDI policies, the indigenization of knowledge, and the transformation of law into an instrument of activism, calling for a rigorous defense of academic autonomy as a requirement of truth.