Via mandatory DEI statements, many universities in the West have been imposing ideological conformity oaths upon their faculty. That urge to control is paralleled in China and in Russia:
![](https://www.stephenhicks.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/China-ideology.png)
Russia:
![](https://www.stephenhicks.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Russian-philosophers-agents-of-state-1024x665.jpg)
It’s the 21st century, and the battle for liberal education is still uphill.
(Thanks for Larry Liu for the China excerpt and Alexey Zhavoronkov for the Russian excerpt.)