The Globe and Mail: Fear and anxiety grip the University of Michigan
In early April I visited the beautiful University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor for a story by Globe and Mail reporter Joe Friesen that seeks to capture the current temperature on campus as it relates to DEI, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and staff feeling the pressure to remain silent. As stated in the article, walking the campus, life appears normal. But after a few conversations with my subjects and those that stopped to introduce themselves, you gain a sense of the tension.
As Friesen writes, “Jason Stanely, a philosophy professor at Yale and expert on authoritarianism who decided to leave the United States for the University of Toronto, puts it ‘It’s always the case that authoritarians target schools and universities. They want to impose patriotic education,’ he said. ‘Authoritarianism requires blind, uncritical faith in the nation and its leaders. And universities criticize everything.’'‘
You can read the full article here.
