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Confidence in US universities continues to nosedive
Columbia students express their dissatisfaction earlier this year. Credit: Getty
Happening today beneath the surface
Columbia students express their dissatisfaction earlier this year. Credit: Getty
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SubscribeThe decline in support for universities is being driven by Republicans? Wouldn’t it be universities themselves that are driving the lack of trust?
The decline in support for universities is probably being driven by climate change.
I can guarantee that argument is actually being made!
I would only send my kid to a Catholic university where Aristotle’s and Aquinas’ “Final Causality”, the end or purpose of things are taught. That is the link with the possibility of sanity in the west as Dr. Ed Feser showed nicely in his response to the new atheist babbling incoherence. Postmodernism defines unintelligibility and incoherence in action. Modern universities leave people not just stupid, but insane.
Aristotle vs. Kant with professor Peter Kreeft https://youtu.be/MozdG1-dFlo
…. an argument Right-wingers on X have been making *for* years… I wonder if Unherd staff are taught prepositions at their universities.
The use of prepositions in Universities has declined from 57% in 2015 to a bleak 36% 2024.
Oh dear! What is so infuriating is that, if experience of similar grammatical aberrations is anything to go by, those of us who do continue to use prepositions will initially be seen as outdated (not too fussed about that) but then as ill educated!
We need to prepare our positions in advance.
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