Friday, March 21, 2014

In defense of honest speech …

… An Academic Barred | The Weekly Standard. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Far from serving as a radical, “outsider’s” critique of political power, the modern academy’s obsession with diversity, cultural relativism, and theory has rendered two generations of students intellectually impotent and aesthetically numb. When the power of beauty is dismissed as ideology, truth comes into contempt as well.

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