Never before in the history of the modern research university have entire departments and fields been devoted to purely ideological pursuits.

A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.

You could mention my name in any hallway in any academic institution and you would have people foaming at the mouth.

Never before in the history of the modern research university have entire departments and fields been devoted to purely ideological pursuits.

If you have to invoke a distant past to justify a present grievance, the case for the grievance is already undermined.

If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it.

It's interesting sometimes to read about the last days of past civilizations. It's hard not to notice during these readings that those last days were filled with completely irrational ideas and behaviors that could not be explained in any way outside of a mass collapse of reason.