How to Save the Universities
They must cultivate freedom, but are especially ill-suited to the task.
December 7, 2023
How to Save the Universities
They must cultivate freedom, but are especially ill-suited to the task.
To Peter Berkowitz, the rot in American institutions of higher learning exposed by Tuesday’s hearings resembles a disease that in its early stages was easy to cure but difficult to diagnose, and now is so advanced that it is easy to diagnose but difficult to cure. Recent analyses of these problems have now at last made it to the pages of the New York Times but are, he writes, “tardy by several decades,” and their suggested remedies woefully inadequate:
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