By now, everyone knows that the modern American post-truth university is also post-justice and post-American. At Power Line, Steven Hayward shows how blatantly the university racket operates these days by highlighting a recent headline: “Student gets into Stanford after writing #BlackLivesMatter on application 100 times.” That was in fact the perfect admissions essay:
Naturally he was admitted. The acceptance letter praised his “passion, determination, accomplishments, and heart,” and how he’d be a “fantastic match” for Stanford.
And he evidently was a match for Stanford; he has graduated and is now at large.
Over at the Gatestone Institute, Daniel Greenfield makes it clear that this racket has been in development for a long, long time:
Columbia University, whose Hamas occupation fills the front pages of every newspaper in the country while driving Jewish students off campus, has changed little in some ways. A hundred years ago, Columbia University President Nicholas Murray Butler was laboring to keep Jewish students out while celebrating Mussolini’s fascism. Butler’s admiration for fascism was common among university presidents, leaders of society and even in the FDR administration.
But Columbia was not always like this. It had once taught truth and justice—and what’s more important, it contributed to the American founding.
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