Commentary
Mark Mercer is a professor of philosophy at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, who has served as president of the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship since 2015.
SAFS is a Canadian organization whose members are devoted to “academic rigour, scholarly inquiry, open discourse and free universities.” Academics like these appear to be in short supply on present-day college campuses.
Over the past several years, Mercer and other SAFS members have witnessed an intensifying challenge to the principles of freedom of speech and academic freedom.
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