The Problem With Elite Complaints About Elite Schools
This raises an important question: Will Ackman and other powerful Democratic donors now spend their considerable resources dismantling the vast ideological infrastructure that brought us to this moment, where university presidents dodge questions about genocide with confounding legalese? What about all the establishment Republicans who ve expressed their outrage? Will Mitch McConnell take a sledgehammer to academia s nonsense?
Unlike, for instance, Black Lives Matter or the spectrum of LGBT causes, Israel is one of the very few issues on which elite opinion is genuinely split. This is what explains the revolts of White House interns and The New York Times union, while also explaining the revolts of John Fetterman and Bill Ackman. (It also explains strange patterns in corporate media coverage.)
Enjeti s cynicism is warranted because reckoning with the conditions that brought us here requires reckoning with the consensus position on Western civilization taught in academia, popular culture, and now much of the business sector. It ultimately requires reckoning with moral relativism.
Emily Jashinsky.
The sheep go on one side, and the goats on the other. You’d have to judge them by the merits. There’s no other way. Otherwise, we’ll just be ruled by a goatocracy, which is a wicked regime.