These elite universities don’t like the scrutiny, but they can be academically excellent and deeply corrupt at the same time. This country is suffering from the rot in the elites, and a spotlight really needs to be put on this.
And the expert source? National Association of Scholars. A conservative activist group.
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These political labels are absurd. This kind of criticism of corrupt elites could just as easily have been made by “classic liberals” as by their right of center counterparts with many overlapping views.
But corrupt elites don’t like the scrutiny and criticism, so they engage in censorship and retaliation, they use ridiculous labels like “far-right” to smear the majority of ordinary people who have normal sensible views, and they create Orwellian “fact-checkers” to try to keep some people inside an information cocoon and detached from reality.
All our institutions are rotten with corruption. Some of them can’t be salvaged, and should cease to exist. But in these “elite” colleges, such as MIT, the rotten corruption exists alongside genuine academic excellence, so it is essential to purge the former while reinvigorating the latter.
I thought these issues were being discussed on this forum, and the linked article is on-topic to such discussions.
Speaking of absurd labels . . . how about artificially dividing the world into “corrupt elites” and “ordinary people who have normal sensible views?”