More of the Same at Yale | City Journal
Contrary to McInnis s opening exhortation, universities have no mandate to undertake social change and no competence to do so. They exist to preserve and pass on the greatest accomplishments of human civilization and to develop new knowledge through peer-reviewed scholarship. Government provides favorable tax treatment on the presumption that university faculty are disinterested seekers of truth, not partisan proponents of any particular worldview. Yale would have set off an earthquake in higher education had its next president been tasked with removing politics from the curriculum and with making excellence and academic promise the sole criteria for faculty and student selection. Instead, it appears to have opted for the status quo.
Heather MacDonald.
A deep dive into Yale’s internal politics. Probably not of interest to those who do not have a love for Yale, or at least what love sours into when the scales fall from one’s eyes. I’m not a Yalie, having been an undergraduate at Cornell. But now, as I heard on a Gad Saad video I
listened to, Cornell has turned from a vibrant Jewish institution (honestly) to an anti-Jewish one. (Gad is a Cornellian. Go Big Red.) The RC church is turning into God knows what. Oxford I just don’t want to know about. The tide might be turning, and I hope it is, but it won’t be in time for many of us. Ok, enough self pity for one day. At least I can buy a truly remarkable robo-vacuum for only $300.