The Western world has many enemies – China, Russia, Iran, North Korea – but none is more potentially lethal than its own education system. From the very institutions once renowned for spreading literacy, the Enlightenment and the means of mastering nature, we now see a deep-seated denial of our common past, pervasive illiteracy and enforced orthodoxy.
The American university is rotting from withinThe modern academy is a threat to reason, liberty and Western civilisation.
JOEL KOTKIN