John O. McGinnis reports in the City Journal on the rise of civic-education colleges at universities across the U.S. These schools, McGinnis describes, are attempting to correct for the painful failings of today’s universities by busting open the left-wing echo chamber and creating a space for free and genuine academic discussion.
It Was Nice While it Lasted
Victor Davis Hanson in Jewish World Review condenses his scenario for Western civilization’s imminent demise into 700 words. The West’s fatal arrogance, Hanson argues, has prevented it from repulsing the four horsemen of its own apocalypse: global warming hysterics, sexually liberalized (and largely childless) lifestyles, unrestricted illegal immigration and a descent into tribalism driven by divisive ideologies like DEI. Despite all that, Hanson also offers the outlines of a solution.