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Daniel Payne has a great piece in The Federalist that wraps up the wacky world of campus logic and higher education’s very misguided priorities.

From the University of Virginia’s fake gang-rape fiasco to radical feminism’s control of all campuses to the University of Chicago’s journalism students’ disdain for the First Amendment, Payne tackles the most recent and most troubling college stories in one fell swoop.

“U.S. colleges foster and encourage lynch mobs and thought police in place of actual education. It’s time for serious reform,” he writes, noting:

From its administration to its faculty to its studentry, the University of Virginia displayed the aplomb of a sulky teenager unwilling to think critically about even the most basic of ethical considerations. …

A kind of frantic Progressive paranoia runs through much of academia, a certainty that the world is a brutal and inhumane place—for everyone, that is, except white men. …

To justify the increasingly useless liberal arts degrees that modern universities churn out, the leaders of these universities must fabricate a vicious and threatening world against which the university itself is arrayed. …

The average college student appears to be genuinely fearful of the world and eager to exert a suffocating kind of control over it. …

To turn these and many other colleges around will require a conscious effort on the part of faculty and students, taxpayers and donors, administrations and boards.

Education is meant for what the Vatican once termed “the formation of the human person in the pursuit of his ultimate end.” The fear, the sociological gibberish and the amateur despotism of many of our institutions of higher learning are working towards no such noble goal, and indeed seem to be working in direct contravention of it. …

Those are just a few highlights among the article’s compelling prose. Check it out.

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