Roger’s Rules

By Roger Kimball

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David Thomson
2009-09-18 06:49:18

Harvard University is overall an intellectual whorehouse. Too many of its graduates (like Barack Obama) have learned to squeeze the truth, bend it, and perform other unnatural acts on it. One perhaps can justify an adversarial approach to truth in a courtroom. That’s a debate we can have sometime later—but such a nihilistic mindset cannot be tolerated within an academic setting.