Bad Ideas Are Born in Bad Universities
How our academies are enabling the instruments of tyranny.
January 28, 2019
Bruce Thornton
In 1726 Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels gave us a brilliant satire of the folly of research divorced from common sense, practicality, and reality. When Gulliver visits the Grand Academy of Lagado, he finds “Projectors†busy with research projects like extracting sunbeams from cucumbers, building houses from the roof down, and converting excrement back to food.
It’s hard not to think about Swift’s Projectors when you consider today’s loony ideas driving our social mores and even laws. And for that we can thank our universities, where most of these preposterous notions have their genesis. Multiple “gender†identities, “toxic masculinity,†“microaggressions,†and occult “racism†are just a few examples of speculative nonsense that have escaped the university asylum and now roil our politics and infect our laws.
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