A lot of the anti-academic stuff is really to do with an anti-Cultural Marxism stance — even among the people who don’t know about Marx. It filters down to them via the more informed right-wingers.
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Robert Hampson wrote:
In the UK, there is an attack on academia - with a series of disciplinary regimes: Research Excellence, Teaching Excellence, a proposed Knowledge Transfer Framework and proposed fines for institutions - but I wasn't limiting the attack to academia. In the back of my head is a sense of an Adrian Henri or even a Paul McCartney (to go back to an earlier discussion) being excited about their discoveries and wanting to share those with a popular audience - and what seems to be the attitude of the current populism of closing down inquiry. (I am not including Kate Tempest in this.)
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