In National Review, Stanley Kurtz looks at a Utah State Legislature bill – S.B. 226 – that aims to restore a mandatory “Great Books” curriculum to university education, covering Western history from Homer to the Holocaust, and provide the legislative muscle needed to organize and fund the required faculty. Woke/DEI-oriented “studies” courses and radical faculty, it is hoped, will wither proportionately. Kurtz optimistically suggests this approach could be extended to universities across the U.S.
Yay Brexit!
Brendan O’Neill in Spiked enthuses that Brexit is superior to just about anything else in the world. “There should be street parties” on the 10th anniversary of the popular vote to withdraw from the EU, he writes. “Let the bells peal for that momentous day when in our millions we said No to globalism.” The continuing surfeit of saboteurs and naysayers among Britain’s “idiot elites”, O’Neill snorts, are gripped by Brexit Derangement Syndrome.
