The liberal Enlightenment is being threatened all over the globe, mostly from the right. In American elite colleges, however, the threat is coming from the left — as the “consumer's college” gives way to the “comfort college.”
The aim of the consumer's college was to train a broad range of students for different forms of success. The primary goal of the comfort college? Diversity and inclusion.
While these, and the accompanying call for social justice, are noble aspirations, what happens when they eclipse critical inquiry and the pursuit of knowledge? What happens when they outweigh everything else?
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