The Diversity of Like Minds

 Yet featured in the pageantry of the day are the speeches, lasting well into the afternoon, that disfigure it. Student orators have a say; the president speaks; various deans congratulate their charges; invited guests add their voices. And every one of them intoned the talk of the left wing of the Democratic Party. Not a single Republican was to be heard - not even heard of, not even a mention of Donald Trump (that I heard), for no speaker bothered to state views opposed to their own. Present and future Republicans and conservatives were gratuitously slighted and left with a sour taste of having their good will imposed upon. At commencement the university exposes its beliefs, showing whom it honors and for what. Harvard's honorary degrees went only to men and women of the left, all speaking to the goals and practices of diversity and the opinions of the left.

- Harvey C. Mansfield, Where Harvard Went Wrong: Fifty Years of Commentary That Fell on Deaf Ears

Find Something Beautiful Today

 

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Terror's Excuse Makers

My new Substack essay explores how people are rationalizing the monstrous.

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Europe is committing suicide. Or at least its leaders have decided to commit suicide. Whether the European people choose to go along with this is, naturally, another matter.

- From The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam by Douglas Murray

Great TV Show Themes: A Series

 

As Media Heads Explode

Politico: A new security agreement between Denmark, Greenland, and the United States is expected to be signed next week.

Got a Raving Review in the WSJ

 

Defending Your Right to Agree with Them

I had dinner with a Harvard Law Professor, who expressed disbelief that I expected him to vote for any faculty applicants who held views he considered wrong. When I noted that I regularly vote for faculty candidates who hold opposing views, he just shrugged and said that, if he rejects their views, he cannot vote for those views to be taught to students.

- Jonathan Turley

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Anti-colonialists often talk about 'the colonial project', as if an empire such as the British one was a single, unitary enterprise with a coherent essence. Then they characterize that supposed essence in terms of domination, despotism, oppression, racism, white supremacy, exploitation, theft or unconstrained violence. In this way they imply that its driving motives were lust for power, delight in domination, racial contempt and greed.

- From Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning by Nigel Biggar