Here is a link to his excellent piece.
Opinion | How to Reboot Free Speech on Campus – The New York Times (nytimes.com)
Here is part of the comment that I posted.
No one could address the current problem better than did David Riesman, one of America’s most revered sociologists, when he wrote, in 1980, that,
“…the “wants” of students to which competing institutions, departments, and individual faculty members cater are quite different from the “needs” of students…” (From “On Higher Education: The Academic Enterprise in an Era of Rising Student Consumerism”)
The “customers” (once quaintly called “students”) don’t “want” to learn real history, certainly not in a challenging way.
Administrators don’t want to criticize “customers”.
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