December 26, 2023 By Mike McDaniel
Voltaire’s Dr. Pangloss was the eternal, unhinged, optimist, living in the best of all possible worlds. One might think Jon Haidt also a bit Panglossian:
The good news is that the academy’s free fall is now over. American higher ed hit rock bottom on December 5, 2023 in that Congressional hearing room. Anyone who wants universities to bounce back and regain the trust of the American people must understand this new morality and ensure that it never holds sway on campus again.
“The academy’s free fall is now over?” Because several university presidents said the quiet part out loud and exposed their academic posteriors before Congress? Oh dear.
The academy--administrators, the DEI Stasi and faculty--are with few exceptions, woke addicts. “Rock bottom” for them is far deeper and rockier than rock bottom for sane Americans. Like addicts, many prefer to die rather than painfully claw their way back up to sanity and real reality. Others simply expire as their self-delusion consumes them.........To Read More.....
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