WEB Dubois is a hero of the academic left because he adopted Marxism in his latter days—battling with the FBI, joining the Communist Party in 1961, and then emigrating to Ghana, where he died in 1963. But what is often forgotten is the earlier great debate he had with Booker T. Washington in the latter […]
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As an academic specializing in nationalism, I witness some truly eyebrow-raising trends in the field. Nationalism has long been a contentious research area to navigate, for reasons which need no mentioning. But the rise of ideological policing in universities over recent years has taken this to a whole new level, constraining the parameters of the […]
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