How EDI, cancel culture and bad boards are killing our universities

With British institutions copying the likes of Harvard in stifling free speech, the only way back to reason is explicit guarantees for academic freedom

More, as Kingsley Amis foresaw in 1960, has meant worse. After years of rapid expansion, which have taken the proportions of young people in college to unprecedented heights, higher education is in crisis throughout the English-speaking world. On this side of the Atlantic, a significant number of universities are staring bankruptcy in the face. In real …