March 06, 2006
Camille Paglia on Harvard After Summers
Camille Paglia has written an informative and incisive editorial for the New York Times today (yes, the New York Times...sometimes they can put out something worthwhile) regarding the state of higher education and its ability to regulate itself. Specifically, she discusses Harvard after the resignation of President Larry Summers.
IT now remains to be seen whether Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences is capable of self-critique. Will its members acknowledge their own insularity and excesses, or will they continue down the path of smug self-congratulation and vanity? Harvard's reputation for disinterested scholarship has been severely gored by the shadowy manipulations of the self-serving cabal who forced Mr. Summers's premature resignation. That so few of the ostensibly aggrieved faculty members deigned to speak on the record to The Crimson, the student newspaper, illustrates the cagey hypocrisy that permeates fashionable campus leftism, which worships diversity in all things except diversity of thought.
Read it all. (Free registration required.)
Hat tip: My co-blogger at Lifelike Pundits, Aaron.
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Larry Summers was a grade-A jerk, very much in the tradition of John Bolton.
If you really want more conservatives at Ivy League schools you're going to have to fluff up those frontal lobes. Or have Lynne Cheney and Newt re-cast the SAT questions to favor your bumpkin base.
Posted by: skip at March 6, 2006 12:51 PMSkip: It's difficult to take your point seriously as you are engaging in an ad hominem attack. If you would direct your comments to a specific part of Camille Paglia's article and refute it with some kind of well-thought reasoning or evidence, then perhaps your response would carry more weight.
Thanks for stopping by.
Posted by: Pam at March 6, 2006 02:58 PM
