With the world in crisis, what s an intellectual to do?
In 1919, Romain Rolland wrote the Declaration of the Independence of the Mind as a call to intellectuals to rise above division, censorship and nationalism of their day. Nahlah Ayed speaks to Canadian and international thinkers to consider the role of the intellectual today, and to rewrite the declaration for our own post-truth moment.
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Posted: Apr 16, 2021 5:36 PM ET | Last Updated: April 16
French novelist and essayist Romain Rolland believed passionately in the public duty of the intellectual. He wrote the Declaration of the Independence of Mind in 1919 to reinforce the primacy of independence and truth in the lives of intellectuals. (Wikimedia Commons)
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Union workers protest layoffs at Harvard University on January 14, 2021, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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As COVID-19 swept across the U.S. last winter and spring, colleges and universities adapted swiftly to the situation. Though it was swift, it was not without pain: Just as quickly as professors learned to teach through a screen on Zoom, administrations slashed budgets. In the early days of the pandemic, little was certain about the future if students would defer fall enrollment, how states might cut education funding or if the federal government would step in to offset the financial impact of the crises. Nevertheless, public and private higher education institutions across the country put in place austerity measures ahead of what they foresaw as a fiscal emergency.
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Israel Trying to Kill Iran Deal
Secretary of State Tony Blinken says that the Biden administration “wants to extend and strengthen” the Iran Deal. The
New York Times says Biden is trying to “salvage” the deal that Trump “repudiated.”
This technically isn’t true. “Repudiated” means that you refuse to accept something. Iran had an agreement with the United States and the United States violated that agreement, thus killing the deal. Biden’s not trying to salvage the agreement, he’s trying to reboot it. Despite this fact, the U.S. has consistently acted as if Iran are the ones who need to be making concessions.