quarta-feira, 25 de setembro de 2019

The Responsibility of Intellectuals to speak the truth to power and to expose lies


https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv9b2xdv
  
See in the link above a recent open access book published by the University College London Press about the 1967 Noam Chomsky’s notorious essay. This book is especially important in the recent context of the Editorial published on Nature entitled “Scientists must rise above politics — and restate their value to societyhttps://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02379-w

Be there as it may let´s not forget that it was the former US President Thomas Jefferson, who claimed that a primary purpose of the academy was to exercise an independent critique of church and state, in order to unmask their usurpation, and monopolies of honors, wealth and power a citation that i took from the Doctoral dissertation of J.K.Brownlee: 

Brownlee, J. K. (2014) Irreconcilable differences: The corporatization of Canadian universities (Doctoral dissertation, Carleton University.