Alan Bernstein

Look, I don't think universities are perfect. I think there is a lot of wokeism that probably has gone a bit too far. But having said that, I would quickly add the great strength of universities and the role of universities and the role of acquiring new knowledge is to challenge the status quo. if you're just going to reaffirm the status quo, you don't need a university to do that.

Look, I don't think universities are perfect. I think there is a lot of wokeism that probably has gone a bit too far. But having said that, I would quickly add the great strength of universities and the role of universities and the role of acquiring new knowledge is to challenge the status quo. if you're just going to reaffirm the status quo, you don't need a university to do that.

Look, I don't think universities are perfect. I think there is a lot of wokeism that probably has gone a bit too far. But having said that, I would quickly add the great strength of universities and the role of universities and the role of acquiring new knowledge is to challenge the status quo. if you're just going to reaffirm the status quo, you don't need a university to do that.

And that goes back to Galileo 500 years ago. Galileo challenged the church. Does the earth go around the sun or vice versa? So I think political leaders have to allow for this freedom and this openness and small-L liberalism that goes on in universities if they're going to get the kind of value out of universities that have been going on for a thousand years now since Oxford was created.

And that goes back to Galileo 500 years ago. Galileo challenged the church. Does the earth go around the sun or vice versa? So I think political leaders have to allow for this freedom and this openness and small-L liberalism that goes on in universities if they're going to get the kind of value out of universities that have been going on for a thousand years now since Oxford was created.

And that goes back to Galileo 500 years ago. Galileo challenged the church. Does the earth go around the sun or vice versa? So I think political leaders have to allow for this freedom and this openness and small-L liberalism that goes on in universities if they're going to get the kind of value out of universities that have been going on for a thousand years now since Oxford was created.

So I think there needs to be an understanding on the base of our political leaders that dissent, looking at different ways of doing things, It can be uncomfortable. And that is the role of the universities. No other institution in society does that as well as a university. In fact, no other institution in society, as far as I can think, does that at all.

So I think there needs to be an understanding on the base of our political leaders that dissent, looking at different ways of doing things, It can be uncomfortable. And that is the role of the universities. No other institution in society does that as well as a university. In fact, no other institution in society, as far as I can think, does that at all.

So I think there needs to be an understanding on the base of our political leaders that dissent, looking at different ways of doing things, It can be uncomfortable. And that is the role of the universities. No other institution in society does that as well as a university. In fact, no other institution in society, as far as I can think, does that at all.

So I think we need to acknowledge that, and politicians need to acknowledge that, and tolerate it.

So I think we need to acknowledge that, and politicians need to acknowledge that, and tolerate it.

So I think we need to acknowledge that, and politicians need to acknowledge that, and tolerate it.

I don't like predicting the future. And I don't like talking as a biomedical scientist, cancer has been my own area. I don't like saying it's around the corner because then people lose interest after a while. But I do think if I look in the immediate past, how remarkable the progress has been, not just in scientific advances, but in clinical advances.

I don't like predicting the future. And I don't like talking as a biomedical scientist, cancer has been my own area. I don't like saying it's around the corner because then people lose interest after a while. But I do think if I look in the immediate past, how remarkable the progress has been, not just in scientific advances, but in clinical advances.

I don't like predicting the future. And I don't like talking as a biomedical scientist, cancer has been my own area. I don't like saying it's around the corner because then people lose interest after a while. But I do think if I look in the immediate past, how remarkable the progress has been, not just in scientific advances, but in clinical advances.

And I think back to when my wife had breast cancer. Now, as you reminded me 15 years ago, she would not be alive today if she had had that cancer 25 years ago. And certainly when I started in cancer research, I won't say how many years ago, we knew nothing about the cancer cell. And so the tools that clinicians had at their disposal were crude at best, crude at best.

And I think back to when my wife had breast cancer. Now, as you reminded me 15 years ago, she would not be alive today if she had had that cancer 25 years ago. And certainly when I started in cancer research, I won't say how many years ago, we knew nothing about the cancer cell. And so the tools that clinicians had at their disposal were crude at best, crude at best.

And I think back to when my wife had breast cancer. Now, as you reminded me 15 years ago, she would not be alive today if she had had that cancer 25 years ago. And certainly when I started in cancer research, I won't say how many years ago, we knew nothing about the cancer cell. And so the tools that clinicians had at their disposal were crude at best, crude at best.

Today, we know the most intimate way molecular changes that makes a cancer cell behave differently than a normal cell. We know the mutations in the DNA that are causing these changes, and we know the effects on the proteins that those genes code for. And so now we can design drugs that exploit those changes.

Today, we know the most intimate way molecular changes that makes a cancer cell behave differently than a normal cell. We know the mutations in the DNA that are causing these changes, and we know the effects on the proteins that those genes code for. And so now we can design drugs that exploit those changes.