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Universities still teach Socrates, but only rarely entertain the genuine institutional risk that his intellectual integrity signifies.

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Dissent: Amplifying Signals

A basic rule of public communication is that attention is not a side effect; it is the medium itself. Attempts to suppress a message therefore carry a predictable risk: suppression becomes the story. In Canberra, police seized posters from the window of a local café and bar following a complaint and temporarily closed the venue […]