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.
The Paper-Pushers Who (Barely) Control America’s Skies
Fans of the 1999 movie Pushing Tin will recall frenetic scenes of air traffic controllers working to keep airliners from colliding in crowded skies. The current reality, writes John Tierney in City Journal, is far worse. Control tasks at U.S. airports today are still exchanged using paper “flight strips”. In contrast to this “international disgrace”, writes Tierney, European and even Canadian control towers have gone nearly all-digital.