Free Speech and Koch Money, by Ralph Wilson and Isaac Kamola
Linsey McGoey applauds a bold account of the ‘dark money’ fuelling the culture wars on campus University campuses have long been battlegrounds of ideas, but lately we have seen a sharpened weapon: the claim that one’s rivals are suppressing the right to free speech. [...]Kochtopus” – a term capturin...
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| Published in: | Times Higher Education 2021 (2495) |
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| Format: | Review |
| Language: | eng |
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| Summary: | Linsey McGoey applauds a bold account of the ‘dark money’ fuelling the culture wars on campus University campuses have long been battlegrounds of ideas, but lately we have seen a sharpened weapon: the claim that one’s rivals are suppressing the right to free speech. [...]Kochtopus” – a term capturing the fact that the family’s lavish philanthropic work has spawned a billion-dollar arsenal fighting to suppress the rights and livelihoods of poorer people in America and across the world. Free Speech and Koch Money: Manufacturing a Campus Culture By Ralph Wilson and Isaac Kamola Pluto Press, 256pp, £72.00 and £16.99 ISBN 9780745343020 and 9780745343013 Published 20 November 2021 The author Ralph Wilson, co-founder and research director of the Corporate Genome Project in Tallahassee, Florida, was born into an itinerant military family but grew up largely in rural Alabama. People should also “beware a ‘marketplace of ideas’ model of the academy”, which “not only comes loaded with a free-market worldview, but misportrays the function and purpose of the academy while neglecting the presence of power and influence… |
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| ISSN: | 0049-3929 |