Macron investigating academics for wrong speak shows that the basis for these anti-university attacks is to appease the far right (in his case, Le Pen voters).
Just to confirm this point: the WSJ editorial page applauds it as a defense of liberalism, invoking Orwell.
Just to confirm this point: the WSJ editorial page applauds it as a defense of liberalism, invoking Orwell.
Abuse of Orwell is standard practice of course, to the point that when Josh Hawley lost a book contract for encouraging the Capitol Insurrection, he described it as Orwellian. nytimes.com/2021/01/13/boo…
It does seem to odd to invoke Orwell, who worried about government regimes targeting and silencing dissent, as someone who would support a government targeting academics who hold dissenting views from the French political class.
But that's the WSJ editorial page!
But that's the WSJ editorial page!
While we are on the subject, Bret Stephens invoking Orwell to argue that Trump was less of a threat than cancel culture was Hawleyesque in its shamelessness. But of course, Bret was a member of the WSJ editorial team.
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