Tag: UnHerd
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Why Shouldn’t the Curriculum be ‘Eurocentric’?
UnHerd Opinion: Nigel Biggar challenges those lobbying for the ‘decolonising’ of university curricula. While many in educational and cultural institutions are yielding, Biggar, drawing upon both statistical data and critical acumen, argues that the case in favour makes neither empirical nor historical sense. Read Biggar’s opinion here.
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Why Aren’t Illiberal Universities Challenged?
Commenting on the present crisis of herd morality and the policing of public rationalities that constrain content-full discourse and illuminating debate around issues of identity, sexuality, and the like, Nigel Biggar opened his recent contribition to UnHerd, and their ‘Groupthink’ theme, with these words: We need to talk about ‘discrimination’, ‘homophobia’, and ‘identity’. In fact, we need to rethink them.…