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 society” https://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.
