Yale isn t America s only top institution facing a meltdown
ale Law School claims to be the finest law school in America. It is for the moment, at least ranked No. 1 on the US News list. It has produced great judges, scholars and lawyers. But now it s an Orwellian mess of anonymous accusations and power politics.
Some say that Dean Heather Gerken has been too indulgent toward complaining students, and on the evidence, I m inclined to agree. One professor interviewed by the Times complained of tattle-tale espionage and asked, Where are we in Moscow in 1953, when children were urged to report on their parents and siblings?
Yes. That s where we are. And that s where many of our top institutions are.
We see publishers where the staff successfully demand the banning of authors they don t like. We see software companies where employees, instead of doing their jobs, spend hours talking politics and trying to politicize their companies. We see news organizations taken over by woke ideology. We see teenagers kicked out of school for tweets made years earlier.
And now, in a place that is supposed to be all about the rule of law, we see anonymous mob rule. With very few exceptions, today s Yale Law School contains either people who are deliberately behaving badly or people who are too afraid to stand up to those who are. We hear a lot about justice, but anonymous accusations and power politics aren t justice, and places that are ruled in such a fashion tend to do badly.
The question is whether there is anyone in charge willing to show principle and decency: at Yale and elsewhere.
And for America, the question is: If our top institutions are this bad, should they remain our top institutions?
via nypost.com