How Comfort Conquered College
The far right has already abandoned its respect for science. But the left has shown that it values dogma more than knowledge.
At what cost?
Photographer: Adam Glanzman/Bloomberg
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The liberal Enlightenment is being threatened all over the globe, mostly from the right. In American elite colleges, however, the threat is coming from the left — as the “consumer’s college” gives way to the “comfort college.”
The aim of the consumer’s college was to train a broad range of students for different forms of success. The primary goal of the comfort college? Diversity and inclusion.