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Friday, October 20, 2023

Indigestion, Ethics, and College Protests

October 19, 2023By John M. Grondelski

Sometimes, something is so hard to swallow that it causes acid reflux. Heartburn causes us discomfort, but, unless it is truly debilitating and usually long-lasting, it tends to be quickly forgotten — especially if caused by some food we like. Those reflections come after reading Ezekiel Emanuel’s essay, “The Moral Deficiencies of a Liberal Education,” in the October 17 New York Times.

Emanuel, who teaches bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, bemoans the “moral blinders” so prominently on display on various college campuses — especially, but not only, elite ones like Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Penn — in the initial reaction to Hamas’s terror attack on Israel. That undergraduates could demonstrate in support of barbarians who killed women and children makes Emanuel declare: “We have failed.” Yes, we have. 

But I am not sure that Emanuel knows how to stop failing.............To Read More....

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