“It’s easy to sneer at the notion of disinterested scholarly inquiry — especially when the right has cynically deployed the concept to attack academics whose work runs up against their political prejudices. And it has become axiomatic on the left that nothing is free or pure, nothing liberated from the workings of power; to think otherwise is false consciousness and self-delusion. Everything is political. And maybe this is so.
But the ideals of scholarship and public service represented by universities at their best are not undone just because they come to us compromised from the start. Like so many other ideals of liberal society, their power derives from their impossibility.”
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