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The Times has published a story about a furore at the University of Manchester regarding the university library’s decision to keep the Holocaust denier David Irving’s books on public display. Critics of the decision have argued that the books should …

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“Instead of focusing on the impermanence of live, embodied acts, it is far more useful to think of the live and the recorded as mediums that facilitate communication between spectators and performers; both of these groups oscillate between the …

Rather than castigate students for supporting the no-platforming policy, it would be more productive to ask what they think it achieves

The argument goes like this:

Universities are sacred places of learning, debate, critique and innovation. They offer a once …

Defeating fake news will be a generational struggle

Fake news is a new phrase, not a new idea. Democratic and authoritarian governments alike have been waging disinformation campaigns since the invention of the printing press. We can take some encouragement …