Opinion | Higher Ed Has a Progressive Disease. Can It Be Reversed?
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As the academic year winds down, you could be forgiven for thinking American higher education is in an advanced state of moral and spiritual decay.
It has been a dispiriting year. To the familiar noisy intolerance of opinions that deviate from modern ideological orthodoxies, we have added new spectacles of academic shame. The presidents of our most prestigious universities demurred when asked whether calls on their campuses for a Jewish genocide are permissible. Meanwhile, campuses have seen sustained and well-orchestrated demonstrations of support for Islamist terrorists.
Our supposed next generation of leaders spouting hate and drivel in equal measure, while the most privileged class of people in the nation claim victim status, indoctrinated by teachers who for decades have been peddling a dishonest education inimical to American ideals. And all this is paradoxically facilitated by the continuing munificence of wealthy Americans, who are unimaginably successful thanks to the application of those same American ideals but so desperately seek the imprimatur of these academic brands for their progeny that they’ll pay any price, tolerate any insult, swallow any lunacy for that coveted Harvard degree.
The graduation season that brings it all to a seasonal climax has only underscored how deep the corrosion is: Commencement ceremonies canceled or noisily disrupted by the Hamasniks; a professional football player hauled through the stocks of public disapproval for daring to suggest that motherhood might be a high calling. And then on Sunday the president of the United States using a commencement address as a platform for abject demagoguery. He told a class full of young black Americans that the country he leads is irredeemably racist and that his political opponents are bringing back Jim Crow, banning black history books and denying water to black people waiting in line to vote.
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