Word: academicization
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“Somehow there was a failure of the academic community, a massive failure of the academic community to do what we should have been doing: to think about the consequences.”
Holocaust survivor Andrew Burian recounted his experiences in concentration camps during World War II to warn against the dangers of discrimination and to emphasize the importance of kindness, before a crowd of nearly 400 last night in Memorial Church. Between the ages of 13 and 15, Burian spent time in...
“I think you can say the academic institutions and the institution of public debate had been warped in a certain sense too,” he said. “The voices against this thing never emerged.”
No amount of academic protest, many professors argued, would have made a difference.
But in 2002 and 2003, expert academic perspectives were lacking not only on the broader question of whether or not to go to war, but also on specific points of the Bush administration’s justification for the invasion.