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4 reasons the practice of canceling weakens higher education

  • Written by Mordechai Gordon, Professor of Education, Quinnipiac University
imageCanceling people can harm democracy.David Malan/Getty Images

Last month, Danny Mamlok, a friend of mine and an Israeli professor from Tel Aviv University, was scheduled to give a talk at Concordia University in Montreal on the topic of education for tolerance. Four days before the presentation was supposed to take place, the organizers of this...

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