Universities must choose between TRUTH or Social Justice, not both, by Jonathan Haidt, professor of ethical leadership at New York University and author of The Righteous Mind, whose speeches over the past year are a tour de force in documenting and exposing the crisis in the US university system caused by identity politics.
Erudite but highly recommended, 15 mins:
Motivated reasoning runs rampant in climate change, for instance. Science has traditionally provided institutional disconfirmation, but science has been badly corrupted by politics and government money in the last few decades., Technology in private industry still works because of the profit motive, but when that is absent truth can go out the window. Obviously, because we are focused on favoring reality over political correctness, the Wentworth Report comes down on the side of truth.
Universities, particularly US ones, are well worth keeping an eye on because they are the incubators of so much of this truth-defying political correctness that is wrecking our civilization.
hat-tip Paul Kelly
