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.
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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