La universidad de la posverdad

Alejandro Zaera-Polo, one of the most renowned architects in the world, was dean of the Faculty of Architecture at Princeton, until a lawsuit was filed against him for alleged plagiarism. So, Zaera-Polo sued the university for defamation. The ideological surveillance and control of the students finished filling the camel's back. And the architect declared war on Princeton: he escalated his claim on academic freedom to the top of the hierarchy and collected all the evidence in the case during his journey. More than 800 pages of documents showing, mail to mail, how identity politics, groupthink and pressure are being used by some people to impede academic freedom and seize power. The result of this cancellation experience and the evidence collected is this book, in which Zaera-Polo himself recounts in the first person his "revenge" against the University of which he was a professor and his rejection of the culture of "alternative truths". » that has been installed in American universities. Throughout its pages, the Spanish architect shows how the contemporary academic authority uses an entire arsenal of control mechanisms, such as unanimity and group thinking, to turn lies into truth. The Post-Truth University tells a story of the violation of academic freedom for ideological reasons that we would do well to take note of. Only in this way can we prevent cancellation and identity persecution from also being installed on our campuses.