Don’t Burn Down the Ivory Towers

Slab from the tomb of Bonifacio Galluzzi, a university lecturer at Bologna, c. 1346. (Photo by Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images)
The pursuit of knowledge and truth is more important than ever—which is why we must fight to save our universities.
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The following remarks were delivered by 2023 Jeane Kirkpatrick Prize winner Joshua Katz at Encounter Books’ Twenty-fifth Anniversary Gala in Washington, D.C., last month.
When you qualify a noun with an adjective, you often change its meaning significantly. All of us believe in justice, I’m sure, but social justice is another matter.
Then there’s freedom.…
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