As universities vacillate between the search for truth and social justice activism, Brendan Dooley and Joshua Hochschild in Law & Liberty reflect on how this is affecting their students. Young people naturally search for “transcendent meaning” in their lives, they write, yet many universities are instead delivering hatred, conflict and eternal grievance.
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.