The worst news at least for the public image of higher education came on Tuesday when the presidents of Harvard, Penn, and MIT affirmed the oft-affirmed title of a book I wrote two decades ago called Intellectual Morons. Rep. Elise Stefanik asked what the university administrators seemed to regard as a trick question in whether calls for the extermination of Jews rose to a punishable offense on their campuses. Penn’s Liz Magill labeled it “a context-dependent decision.” Harvard’s Claudine Gay said it “depends on the context.” MIT’s Sally Kornbluth offered a “depending on the context” in her answer, too.
The three weird sisters not only failed the test, they copied their answers. How might their universities discipline three students sitting next to one another who gave the same profoundly wrong and bizarrely amorphous non-answer answer? One imagines a penalty worse than for any “from the river to the sea”–type chant. And this hypothetical gets to the heart of the very real issue: the adults in Congress and beyond want to force students to pay for the offenses of their teachers. …
Somebody at MIT taught those 19-year-olds it’s okay to blockade Jewish…
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