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Are students really too fragile for Shakespeare?

10 August 2022

11:10 PM

10 August 2022

11:10 PM

What’s the point of a university? Regrettably, that’s a genuine question. The censorship and trigger warnings that are rife on British campuses make it hard to work out what our formerly esteemed institutions of higher education are for anymore, now that free speech, intellectual challenge and the pursuit of truth have become deeply unfashionable.

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