Middlebury 'riot' shows something ill in American higher ed: Distinctly Catholic: Universities exist to teach students to think, not to protect their feelings. And the societal effects of campus illiberal liberalism, like its conservative cousin, are nasty.
MGB: Charles Murray was our Keynote speaker for the Washington Graduate Public Policy Consortium on Poverty in 1985. After his talk, I mentioned to him that what he was describing was the worthy v. unworthy poor, which George Bernard Shaw used in the play Pygmalion. He agreed that the term fit and started using it. Of course, Murray does not get that Shaw was condemning the idea. He is a bit of an idiot and the kind of true believer you expect to find at AEI and Heritage. Protesting that sort of donor funded non-sense is never just whining, especially if student activity fees plaid for his plane ticket.
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