Rampant DEI nonsense to blame for the chaos seizing higher education
Universities have succeeded in radicalizing their campuses. Eliminating mandatory ideological pledges to DEI is the first step to recovery
With American college campuses convulsed by protests that are anti-Israeli, anti-American and often antisemitic, it’s a good time to ask how students at the country’s institutions of higher education are so profoundly radicalized and hostile to their own society. The answer is that, to a great extent, these schools are the authors of their own problems. They worked hard to politicize students and, at least with some, succeeded.
New York University social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, co-author of The Coddling of the American Mind, notes that campus bureaucracies around freshman orientation and student life are constantly growing — and they’re staffed by people who are even further to the political left than professors.
