No, we shouldn't. Governments should not decide what can and cannot be studied. Universities should ensure that topics being studied are done so rigorously & contribute to knowledge. https://twitter.com/SohrabAhmari/status/1052500117025157120 …
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I disagree. Once the government has a role in deciding which departments get funding, this becomes an electoral issue. The reason grievance studies festered for 40+ years is because they were protected from becoming an electoral issue.
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The biggest lesson from the grievance studies debacle (that your own work wonderfully exposes) is that Universities have utterly failed at making appropriate high-level decisions about which fields should be funded.
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Government intervention is absolutely the last resort and should even have layers of other "last" resorts ahead of it. Politicians aren't adequately informed to do this, and political grievances exist in politics too. Opening these fields to fair criticism would sort them out.
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You can obligate universities by law to obey certain scientific standards, it should solve problem of stuff like "gender studies" without directly banning "gender studies".
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This point is well taken but what are the outward bounds of what should be certified and subsidized by federal governments?
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Should degrees in Phrenology still be granted (and subsidized)?
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I already have plenty of reasons to hope that
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