Yesterday, I argued that Claudine Gay-ouster triumphalism is misguided because Gay’s departure from the Harvard president will not prove to be a blow against DEI at that institution.
As with certain actual wars such as the war against the Nazis or Israel's war against Hamas there can be no reconciliation there can be no compromise. As noted DEI and all it entails is DEATH to liberalism, death to the kind of free inquiry that builds scholarship and benefits society. There is no middle ground. This ideology has to be fought relentlessly and destroyed root and branch in the academy which is where its tentacles originate. I am not sure we can do it. At least not be for a terrible terrible catastrophe wakes us up. And by then it may be too late.
As with certain actual wars such as the war against the Nazis or Israel's war against Hamas there can be no reconciliation there can be no compromise. As noted DEI and all it entails is DEATH to liberalism, death to the kind of free inquiry that builds scholarship and benefits society. There is no middle ground. This ideology has to be fought relentlessly and destroyed root and branch in the academy which is where its tentacles originate. I am not sure we can do it. At least not be for a terrible terrible catastrophe wakes us up. And by then it may be too late.