The university crisis between moral politics and free speech

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Universities should be places of free thought.

Using documented cases from and the , this book shows how a system of , and takes shape—and why many students retreat into .

“Soft repression doesn’t need bans. It’s enough if the social cost of dissent is high enough.”

A spectre haunts the sterile corridors of our universities—not that of communism, as Marx once proclaimed, but that of a new orthodoxy that celebrates itself as progressive while destroying the very foundations of what education once meant. It is a strange irony of history that those institutions once dedicated to enlightenment and free thought have now mutated into temples of a new doctrine, where heresy is punished not by burning at the stake, but by social ostracism and academic excommunication.

The university, once a place of debate and intellectual friction, has transformed into a wellness oasis for sensitive souls, where every uncomfortable truth is branded a "microaggression" and every contradiction categorized as "toxic." Where Socrates once cornered his interlocutors with persistent questioning until they recognized the fragility of their convictions, today the motto is: "Don't question anything that might hurt feelings." The Socratic dialogue has given way to therapeutic group discussions, the dialectic to empathic lyricism.

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