The Right's Old Strategy for Higher Education Isn't Working. This One Would.

Historically, the mission of higher education was to preserve, discover and disseminate the truth. While many professors still strive to do so, too many colleges have abandoned this mission, instead seeking to promote social justice narratives. The folly and contradictions inherent in this new mission for higher education have reached absurd heights. Some of these, like the campus celebrations of Hamas' recent massacre and mutilation of Israelis, are well publicized. But others receive far less attention. Consider universities' distorted approach to truth- seeking, exposed by Harvard professor Roland Fryer, one of the country's leading economists. Among other "thoughtcrimes," Fryer's research found that Black civilians were not more likely than non- Blacks to be shot by white police officers (though they were more likely to have nonshooting force used upon them). Since this inconvenient truth went against the narrative of racist white cops hunting Black bodies, his colleagues at Harvard encouraged him not to publish the findings. He was later severely punished by the university, supposedly for unrelated matters.