Caroline Glick on the Death of the American University & the Anti-Semitism of Tony Kushner

On Kushner vs. Wiesenfeld:

Third, the assault on Wiesenfeld should raise alarm bells for all parents in the US. It isn’t just that universities are increasingly closed to critical thought regarding Israel. Their refusal to countenance the truth in the discussion of Israel — Columbia, my alma mater just established an institute of Palestine studies. That is, Columbia just established an institute to study an imaginary country and a nation that was invented by the Soviets circa 1969 — is a signal that they cannot study anything. What the Kushner story shows is that there is no reason for parents to believe that a college degree from most US universities today will provide their children with anything remotely resembling an education.

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