Niall Ferguson: The Treason of the Intellectuals by academia

Recommendable! Caveat: I did not have time to read the whole, long article!

"... The killing of George Floyd happened when [current Harvard University President] Gay was dean. Six days after Floyd’s death, she published a statement on the subject that suggests she felt personally threatened by events in distant Minneapolis. Floyd’s death, she wrote, illustrated “the brutality of racist violence in this country” and gave her an “acute sense of vulnerability.” She was “reminded, again, how even our [i.e., black Americans’] most mundane activities, like running. . . can carry inordinate risk. At a moment when all I want to do is gather my teenage son into my arms, I am painfully aware of how little shelter that provides.” In nothing that Gay said last Tuesday did she seem aware that Jewish students might have felt the same way after October 7. ..."

Niall Ferguson: The Treason of the Intellectuals | The Free Press Anyone who has a naive belief in the power of higher education to instill morality has not studied the history of German universities in the Third Reich.