Excellent essay. The problem is renewing moral order from below. This cannot be done in principle from above. Moral order imposed by government policy tends towards moral theater and not moral character.
One might argue that the responsibility for educating wilfully ignorant progressive undergrads about the existence of conservative ideas, and/or the existence of dissent from progressivism in general, really shouldn't fall on the shoulders of a few courageous undergrad classmates who happened to benefit from a conservative upbringing and/or conservative roots. You'd think that the mere exposure to non-progressive ideas ought to be part of liberal education as such. Sadly, academia has other ideas. Fortunately there are alternatives: https://lawliberty.org/offshore-core/
Excellent essay. The problem is renewing moral order from below. This cannot be done in principle from above. Moral order imposed by government policy tends towards moral theater and not moral character.
Excellent essay. The problem is renewing moral order from below. This cannot be done in principle from above. Moral order imposed by government policy tends towards moral theater and not moral character.
Rather ironic that Harvard preaches DEI and all that it entails yet what the DEI en goal is that of conformity, homogeneity, and sterility.
DEI is just an alternative system of racism against white people, including Asians and Jews.
This is consonant with Lauren A. Wright's report from Princeton:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/07/conservative-students-college-ideology/678934/
Helen Andrews (Yale '08) dissents:
https://x.com/herandrews/status/1818645783798833163
One might argue that the responsibility for educating wilfully ignorant progressive undergrads about the existence of conservative ideas, and/or the existence of dissent from progressivism in general, really shouldn't fall on the shoulders of a few courageous undergrad classmates who happened to benefit from a conservative upbringing and/or conservative roots. You'd think that the mere exposure to non-progressive ideas ought to be part of liberal education as such. Sadly, academia has other ideas. Fortunately there are alternatives: https://lawliberty.org/offshore-core/
Excellent essay. The problem is renewing moral order from below. This cannot be done in principle from above. Moral order imposed by government policy tends towards moral theater and not moral character.