Modern universities have become hidebound, ideologically rigid, and effectively dead institutions that have abdicated their role as intellectual stewards.

“I've been contemplating the reality of the rot at universities and one of the things you have to ask yourself when many large institutions of the same type rot all at the same time you have to ask yourself whether or not the reason that they're rotting the the simplest reason that they're rotting is”

Higher education in the UK and Western societies has been corrupted by a radical progressive takeover that prioritizes ideological orthodoxy over the pursuit of truth.

“I think essentially what I saw over the last 20 years was higher education in this country much like in North America completely lose its way uh it increasingly lost touch with the original Mission of higher education the universities I was working at were no longer really interested in the pursuit ”