Universities are locked in a struggle between preserving their historical role as educational institutions committed to truth-seeking and a new mandate that subordinates truth to the values of social diversity. The University of Chicago and Northwestern provide case studies from both sides for Law and Liberty’s John O. McGinnis to report on what is at stake.
The default position of Western elites is to condemn one’s country as a hellscape of inequity, racism and injustice. Lionel Shriver sees grave geopolitical implications in this self-mortification. In the Spectator US
Steven Koonin, chief scientist of the Obama-era U.S. Department of Energy, has written a book disentangling actual climate science from elite opinion, finding that many claims about global warming and climate change are false. In the Wall Street Journal, Holman Jenkins relates how Koonin found that the real science suggests global warming will be gradual and limited.
Earlier this week former Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murdering George Floyd. Before the verdict was in, two prominent American politicians –
For seven years Andrew Gutmann sent his daughter to the US$54,000-a-year Brearley girls’ school in Manhattan. But Gutmann finally had enough of the school’s obsession
The default position of Western elites is to condemn one’s country as a hellscape of inequity, racism and injustice. Lionel Shriver sees grave geopolitical implications in this self-mortification. In the Spectator US
Steven Koonin, chief scientist of the Obama-era U.S. Department of Energy, has written a book disentangling actual climate science from elite opinion, finding that many claims about global warming and climate change are false. In the Wall Street Journal, Holman Jenkins relates how Koonin found that the real science suggests global warming will be gradual and limited.
Earlier this week former Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murdering George Floyd. Before the verdict was in, two prominent American politicians –
For seven years Andrew Gutmann sent his daughter to the US$54,000-a-year Brearley girls’ school in Manhattan. But Gutmann finally had enough of the school’s obsession
