Top Margaret Thatcher Quotes
Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went into a protracted swoon during the Reagan-Bush-Thatcher decade, and shows scant sign of recovering...
Christopher Hitchens
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faith, politics, religion, science, truth, humanism, enlightenment, literature, atheism, irony
What we have witnessed in our own time is the death of universities as centres of critique. Since Margaret Thatcher, the role of academia has been to service the status quo, not challenge it in the na...
Terry Eagleton
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imagination, justice, radicalism, tradition, academia, university, 2010, margaret thatcher, rembrandt, humanities