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"Our universities, after a few aberrant decades of experimenting with open inquiry and the advance of knowledge, have reverted to their medieval purpose : to train an intellectual elite for the propagation and defense of the state ideology. Then it was Christianity ; now it is utopian egalitarianism—“political correctness,” the Narrative."
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