The death spiral of American academia

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Written By Patrick Michaels

In this short but important essay, Patrick Michaels, himself the target of campaigns by politically motivated colleagues, describes the left-wing bias in universities, and reviews the successful campaign by extremists to force out those on the right of politics. He paints a pessimistic picture of the future of US academia, warning that it risks becoming irrelevant.

The Death Spiral of American Academia

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Patrick Michaels

The late Patrick J. Michaels was the author of Scientocracy: The Tangled Web of Public Science and Public Policy (Cato Books, 2019) and was a research professor of environmental sciences at University of Virginia for thirty years.

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