Massey College\u0027s rejection of Margaret Wente serves as yet another example of the potentially terminal malaise afflicting Western universities
Diligent readers will recall that I’ve had some differences with Margaret Wente, long a senior columnist of the Globe and Mail, but it is an honour and a duty to defend her against the cowardly and hypocritical treatment she has received from Massey College.
This is the potentially terminal malaise of Western academia and it has reduced most of the Western media to life-support as well. In an ancient tragedian storyline, Western civilization defeated the perverted assaults of Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, Fascist Italy and Soviet Russia, and then flattered itself with notions of what American public intellectual Francis Fukuyama famously described as ”the end of history.
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