#intellectuals — Public Fediverse posts
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Vietnam.vn: Vietnamese intellectuals in the UK are building the first database of experts.. “For the first time, more than 200 Vietnamese experts in the UK are connected in a specialized database, creating a bridge between overseas knowledge resources and the needs of domestic science and technology development.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/07/vietnam-vn-vietnamese-intellectuals-in-the-uk-are-building-the-first-database-of-experts/ -
Vietnam.vn: Vietnamese intellectuals in the UK are building the first database of experts.. “For the first time, more than 200 Vietnamese experts in the UK are connected in a specialized database, creating a bridge between overseas knowledge resources and the needs of domestic science and technology development.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/07/vietnam-vn-vietnamese-intellectuals-in-the-uk-are-building-the-first-database-of-experts/ -
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
-- Aldous Huxley⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Intellectuals #Sex
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Kayaks #Everglades #Florida
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An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
-- Aldous Huxley⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AldousHuxley #Intellectuals #Sex
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Kayaks #Everglades #Florida
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An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
-- Aldous Huxley -
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Critique Is Over, Morality Is Dead, and Surreal Utopias Are Where It’s At
An article by #LuceDeLire in #eflux journal.
Intellectuals used to publicly critique the powerful on moral grounds. Today, both critique and morality have become dysfunctional—for perfectly political and material reasons. I argue that, for political gains, we should now craft surreal utopias—hospitable, euphoric, lesbian.
#humanities #philosophy #intellectuals #socialmedia #queer #queerart #theory #queertheory
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Critique Is Over, Morality Is Dead, and Surreal Utopias Are Where It’s At
An article by #LuceDeLire in #eflux journal.
Intellectuals used to publicly critique the powerful on moral grounds. Today, both critique and morality have become dysfunctional—for perfectly political and material reasons. I argue that, for political gains, we should now craft surreal utopias—hospitable, euphoric, lesbian.
#humanities #philosophy #intellectuals #socialmedia #queer #queerart #theory #queertheory
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John Ganz skewers Trumpist intellectuals:
#USPolitics #DonaldTrump #SohrabAhmari #ChristopherCaldwell #JohnGanz #Intellectuals
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John Ganz skewers Trumpist intellectuals:
#USPolitics #DonaldTrump #SohrabAhmari #ChristopherCaldwell #JohnGanz #Intellectuals
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John Ganz skewers Trumpist intellectuals:
#USPolitics #DonaldTrump #SohrabAhmari #ChristopherCaldwell #JohnGanz #Intellectuals
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John Ganz skewers Trumpist intellectuals:
#USPolitics #DonaldTrump #SohrabAhmari #ChristopherCaldwell #JohnGanz #Intellectuals
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John Ganz skewers Trumpist intellectuals:
#USPolitics #DonaldTrump #SohrabAhmari #ChristopherCaldwell #JohnGanz #Intellectuals
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"There is little that the ordinary man of today learns about events or ideas except through the medium of this class."
"It is the intellectuals in this sense who decide what views and opinions are to reach us, which facts are important enough to be told to us, and in what form and from what angle they are to be presented."
Hayek
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"There is little that the ordinary man of today learns about events or ideas except through the medium of this class."
"It is the intellectuals in this sense who decide what views and opinions are to reach us, which facts are important enough to be told to us, and in what form and from what angle they are to be presented."
Hayek
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«His critics’ accusation was, Said argued, a confession. It was they who were ideologically blinkered by the #UK’s #pseudointellectual class, “the insiders, experts, coteries [and] professionals who … mould public opinion, make it conformist [and] encourage a reliance on a superior little band of all-knowing men in power.”»
Today’s Public #Intellectuals Are More Likely to Serve #Power Than Challenge It | Juliet Jacques
https://novaramedia.com/2026/01/15/todays-public-intellectuals-are-more-likely-to-serve-power-than-challenge-it/ -
«His critics’ accusation was, Said argued, a confession. It was they who were ideologically blinkered by the #UK’s #pseudointellectual class, “the insiders, experts, coteries [and] professionals who … mould public opinion, make it conformist [and] encourage a reliance on a superior little band of all-knowing men in power.”»
Today’s Public #Intellectuals Are More Likely to Serve #Power Than Challenge It | Juliet Jacques
https://novaramedia.com/2026/01/15/todays-public-intellectuals-are-more-likely-to-serve-power-than-challenge-it/ -
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
-- Christopher Morley⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ChristopherMorley #Intellectuals #Life #Humor
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Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
-- Christopher Morley⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ChristopherMorley #Intellectuals #Life #Humor
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Apparently, the #CIA and The Paris Review had a secret book club, but someone forgot to bring snacks, and now there's a whole #essay about it. 🤔📚 Meanwhile, the magazine's history reads like a grocery list for pseudo-intellectuals who can't remember their passwords. 😂
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/11/11/what-really-happened-with-the-cia-and-the-paris-review-a-conversation-with-lance-richardson/ #TheParisReview #SecretBookClub #Humor #Intellectuals #HackerNews #ngated -
Apparently, the #CIA and The Paris Review had a secret book club, but someone forgot to bring snacks, and now there's a whole #essay about it. 🤔📚 Meanwhile, the magazine's history reads like a grocery list for pseudo-intellectuals who can't remember their passwords. 😂
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/11/11/what-really-happened-with-the-cia-and-the-paris-review-a-conversation-with-lance-richardson/ #TheParisReview #SecretBookClub #Humor #Intellectuals #HackerNews #ngated -
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
-- Christopher Morley⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ChristopherMorley #Intellectuals #Life #Humor
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #360panorama #NewMexico
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Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
-- Christopher Morley⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ChristopherMorley #Intellectuals #Life #Humor
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #360panorama #NewMexico
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Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
-- Christopher Morley⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ChristopherMorley #Intellectuals #Life #Humor
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Seashells #Everglades #Florida
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Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
-- Christopher Morley⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ChristopherMorley #Intellectuals #Life #Humor
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Seashells #Everglades #Florida
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"The magazine’s politics were what passes for center-left in the United States. […] The operating orthodoxy was that police killings, CIA coups, black site torture, and institutional misogyny were aberrations, deviations from the American norm that would eventually be corrected when the arc of the moral universe, long as it is, finally got around to them."
by Ismail Ibrahim: https://bidoun.org/articles/house-arab
#beliefs #intellectuals #coloniality #elites #prestige #sociality #status #subcultures #socialStatus #liberals #sociology #NYC #NewYorker #TheNewYorker #Manhattan #racism #negrophobia #Bidoun #islamophobia #media #press #journalism #journalists
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"The magazine’s politics were what passes for center-left in the United States. […] The operating orthodoxy was that police killings, CIA coups, black site torture, and institutional misogyny were aberrations, deviations from the American norm that would eventually be corrected when the arc of the moral universe, long as it is, finally got around to them."
by Ismail Ibrahim: https://bidoun.org/articles/house-arab
#beliefs #intellectuals #coloniality #elites #prestige #sociality #status #subcultures #socialStatus #liberals #sociology #NYC #NewYorker #TheNewYorker #Manhattan #racism #negrophobia #Bidoun #islamophobia #media #press #journalism #journalists
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@Nonilex From #LawrenceBritt 's #CharacteristicsOfFascism :
11. Disdain for #Intellectuals and the #Arts
Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to #HigherEducation and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other #academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts. -
@Nonilex From #LawrenceBritt 's #CharacteristicsOfFascism :
11. Disdain for #Intellectuals and the #Arts
Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to #HigherEducation and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other #academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts. -
#SocialJustice #intellectuals #history #JamesBaldwin
"Five years after George Floyd, many liberals blame 'wokeness' for stifling open debate. So why can’t they handle being disagreed with?
On February 18, 1965, students at Cambridge University assembled for a debate between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley Jr. on the topic of racism in America. Before a rapt audience, Baldwin spoke of not only the stolen labor of slaves that had enriched the Southern economy but also the daily humiliations of being Black — 'the policeman, the taxi drivers, the waiters, the landlady, the landlord, the banks, the insurance companies, the millions of details 24 hours of every day which spell out to you that you are a worthless human being.'
Buckley, in his famous mid-Atlantic sneer, responded that the economic condition of Black Americans had risen so greatly since slavery that they had, essentially, nothing to complain about. Of course, Buckley was lying through his teeth: Almost half of all Black Americans were living in poverty. His real disagreement with Baldwin lay at the social level. The odious behavior of a few individual whites was regrettable, but it was no great obstacle. The real problem was that Black people lacked the kind of serious moral and intellectual 'energy' necessary to produce a professional elite. Instead, the civil-rights movement had encouraged a self-defeating posture of victimhood among Black people that young white liberals were all too eager to affirm. Thanks to the 'generosity' of white Americans, Black people had already attained economic justice, Buckley suggested. The last thing they needed was social justice too.
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Another way to put this is that all social movements are also intellectual movements: They both contribute to and rely on the ideological groundwater of society. Williams would have us believe that someone who smashes a storefront window in Minneapolis or pitches a tent in Morningside Heights is engaged in the opposite of thinking. But the panicking ruling class wasn’t just interested in flattening the encampments or quelling the looters; it wanted to crush the ideas that these things represented. This is what Baldwin was getting at when he spoke of the 'spiritual state' of America. 'The political institutions of any nation,' he wrote in *The Fire Next Time*, 'are always menaced and controlled by the spiritual state of that nation.' What he meant, I think, was that every time a person contests or defends a political situation, they are also contesting or defending the intellectual terms on which that contest is conducted. You cannot fight without fighting about how you fight. That is why Williams cares so desperately about what the summer of 2020 made us think, even if the protests manifestly failed to achieve their objective goals; it is also why liberal institutions were so eager to snatch up these ideas and exhaust their potential before tossing us back the husks. What Mamdani’s win suggests, however, is that they did not get them all."
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#SocialJustice #intellectuals #history #JamesBaldwin
"Five years after George Floyd, many liberals blame 'wokeness' for stifling open debate. So why can’t they handle being disagreed with?
On February 18, 1965, students at Cambridge University assembled for a debate between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley Jr. on the topic of racism in America. Before a rapt audience, Baldwin spoke of not only the stolen labor of slaves that had enriched the Southern economy but also the daily humiliations of being Black — 'the policeman, the taxi drivers, the waiters, the landlady, the landlord, the banks, the insurance companies, the millions of details 24 hours of every day which spell out to you that you are a worthless human being.'
Buckley, in his famous mid-Atlantic sneer, responded that the economic condition of Black Americans had risen so greatly since slavery that they had, essentially, nothing to complain about. Of course, Buckley was lying through his teeth: Almost half of all Black Americans were living in poverty. His real disagreement with Baldwin lay at the social level. The odious behavior of a few individual whites was regrettable, but it was no great obstacle. The real problem was that Black people lacked the kind of serious moral and intellectual 'energy' necessary to produce a professional elite. Instead, the civil-rights movement had encouraged a self-defeating posture of victimhood among Black people that young white liberals were all too eager to affirm. Thanks to the 'generosity' of white Americans, Black people had already attained economic justice, Buckley suggested. The last thing they needed was social justice too.
(. . .)
Another way to put this is that all social movements are also intellectual movements: They both contribute to and rely on the ideological groundwater of society. Williams would have us believe that someone who smashes a storefront window in Minneapolis or pitches a tent in Morningside Heights is engaged in the opposite of thinking. But the panicking ruling class wasn’t just interested in flattening the encampments or quelling the looters; it wanted to crush the ideas that these things represented. This is what Baldwin was getting at when he spoke of the 'spiritual state' of America. 'The political institutions of any nation,' he wrote in *The Fire Next Time*, 'are always menaced and controlled by the spiritual state of that nation.' What he meant, I think, was that every time a person contests or defends a political situation, they are also contesting or defending the intellectual terms on which that contest is conducted. You cannot fight without fighting about how you fight. That is why Williams cares so desperately about what the summer of 2020 made us think, even if the protests manifestly failed to achieve their objective goals; it is also why liberal institutions were so eager to snatch up these ideas and exhaust their potential before tossing us back the husks. What Mamdani’s win suggests, however, is that they did not get them all."
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Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
-- Christopher Morley⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ChristopherMorley #Intellectuals #Life #Humor
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #TheMaze #Dollhouse #Canyonlands #Utah
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Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
-- Christopher Morley⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ChristopherMorley #Intellectuals #Life #Humor
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #TheMaze #Dollhouse #Canyonlands #Utah
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🚀🧠 #American #science is apparently facing a "brain #drain," as if all the big thinkers like Kaku and Tyson are just going to wander off into the great intellectual void. Maybe they’ll find where all the #missing #socks go. 🧦🤔
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/american-science-brain-drain/ #brain #intellectuals #science #news #HackerNews #ngated -
🚀🧠 #American #science is apparently facing a "brain #drain," as if all the big thinkers like Kaku and Tyson are just going to wander off into the great intellectual void. Maybe they’ll find where all the #missing #socks go. 🧦🤔
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/american-science-brain-drain/ #brain #intellectuals #science #news #HackerNews #ngated -
#eu #israel #palestine: #war / #gaza / #intellectuals / #postwarorder
„Condemning atrocities or expressing abstract support for a 'two-state solution' is no longer sufficient, argues an international group of 121 academics and intellectuals, including Kenneth Pomeranz and Gisèle Sapiro.“
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#eu #israel #palestine: #war / #gaza / #intellectuals / #postwarorder
„Condemning atrocities or expressing abstract support for a 'two-state solution' is no longer sufficient, argues an international group of 121 academics and intellectuals, including Kenneth Pomeranz and Gisèle Sapiro.“
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@dmacphee From #LawrenceBritt's #CharacteristicsOfFascism
"11. Disdain for #Intellectuals and the #Arts
Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to #HigherEducation and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other #academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts."
https://kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW/110832318168556366 -
@dmacphee From #LawrenceBritt's #CharacteristicsOfFascism
"11. Disdain for #Intellectuals and the #Arts
Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to #HigherEducation and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other #academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts."
https://kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW/110832318168556366 -
The Intellectual Smoothie: Blending Minds of Descartes, Freud, and Jung
#Philosophy #Psychology #Descartes #Freud #Jung #MindBody #CognitivePsychology #Intellectuals #PhilosophicalJourney #Psychoanalysis #Archetypes #HumanExperience #MentalHealth #ExploreYourMind #ThoughtsAndFeelings #BingeWatching #IntellectualSmoothie
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From #LawrenceBritt's #CharacteristicsOfFascism
11. Disdain for #Intellectuals and the #Arts
"Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to #HigherEducation and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other #academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts."
https://kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW/110832318168556366 -
From #LawrenceBritt's #CharacteristicsOfFascism
11. Disdain for #Intellectuals and the #Arts
"Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to #HigherEducation and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other #academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts."
https://kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW/110832318168556366 -
Da says modern forms of govt rose w/the Industrial Revolution.Now #tech is changing, & the govt may too.
He says some friends compare it to China's Cultural Revolution
…1966–1976, Chinese Communist leader Mao Tse-tung led an assault on suspected capitalist sympathizers,closing #universities, sending #professors & #intellectuals to work in fields, #purging govt workers & encouraging supporters to harass or attack their elders. It was "the most chaotic period of modern #China," the professor says. -
Da says modern forms of govt rose w/the Industrial Revolution.Now #tech is changing, & the govt may too.
He says some friends compare it to China's Cultural Revolution
…1966–1976, Chinese Communist leader Mao Tse-tung led an assault on suspected capitalist sympathizers,closing #universities, sending #professors & #intellectuals to work in fields, #purging govt workers & encouraging supporters to harass or attack their elders. It was "the most chaotic period of modern #China," the professor says. -
#LawrenceBritt #CharacteristicsOfFascism Numbers 1 and 11...
1. Powerful and Continuing #Nationalism
Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of #patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. #Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.11. Disdain for #Intellectuals and the #Arts
Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to #HigherEducation and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other #academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts.Trump targets 'anti-American ideology' at Smithsonian museums
by Max Matza, 3/27/2025
"US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order targeting the Smithsonian Institution, which operates more than 20 museums and research centres visited by millions yearly in Washington DC and New York City.
"The order directs the vice-president to 'eliminate improper, divisive, or anti-American ideology' from the institute's museums, centres and the National Zoo in Washington.
"It also directs the interior secretary to restore federal properties, including parks, memorials and statues, which 'have been improperly removed or changed in the last five years to perpetuate a false revision of history'.
"The move is part of Trump's effort to shape American culture, in addition to politics."
Read more:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdjy1jmvvwzo
#ChristoFascism #ChristianRight #USPol #Fascism #Authoritarianism #Fascists #TurdReich -
#LawrenceBritt #CharacteristicsOfFascism Numbers 1 and 11...
1. Powerful and Continuing #Nationalism
Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of #patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. #Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.11. Disdain for #Intellectuals and the #Arts
Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to #HigherEducation and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other #academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts.Trump targets 'anti-American ideology' at Smithsonian museums
by Max Matza, 3/27/2025
"US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order targeting the Smithsonian Institution, which operates more than 20 museums and research centres visited by millions yearly in Washington DC and New York City.
"The order directs the vice-president to 'eliminate improper, divisive, or anti-American ideology' from the institute's museums, centres and the National Zoo in Washington.
"It also directs the interior secretary to restore federal properties, including parks, memorials and statues, which 'have been improperly removed or changed in the last five years to perpetuate a false revision of history'.
"The move is part of Trump's effort to shape American culture, in addition to politics."
Read more:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdjy1jmvvwzo
#ChristoFascism #ChristianRight #USPol #Fascism #Authoritarianism #Fascists #TurdReich -
@odaraia Number 11 on #LawrenceBritt's #CharacteristicsOfFascism list.
"11. Disdain for #Intellectuals and the #Arts
#Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to #HigherEducation and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other #academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts." -
@odaraia Number 11 on #LawrenceBritt's #CharacteristicsOfFascism list.
"11. Disdain for #Intellectuals and the #Arts
#Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to #HigherEducation and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other #academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts."
