West Newsmagazine 11-1-23

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November 1, 2023
WEST NEWSMAGAZINE
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We must restore
‘veritas’ at our universities
According to a survey done by the Harvard
Crimson in 2022, 80% of the faculty
at Harvard University self-identified as
“liberal.” Thirty-seven percent self-identified
as “very liberal.”
Only 1% self-identified as conservative.
This snapshot of the politics of the faculty
at the nation’s oldest and leading university
is not exceptional. Surveys of most university
faculties show them overwhelmingly
on the left.
If we think about it, it can help us
understand why the president of Harvard,
Claudine Gay, had such a hard
time making a clear statement condemning
the atrocities committed by Hamas
against Israeli civilians.
And it can help us understand demonstrations
by students at Harvard, and other
universities, accusing Israel, the victim of
these atrocities, as their cause.
As one Wall Street Journal columnist
put it, one can hardly imagine demonstrations
at Harvard against human brutality
in China, Iran, North Korea, Russia
or Syria.
But somehow atrocities against Israelis
are not only justified in the eyes of these
left-wing university elite but caused by
their Israeli victims.
What is the sickness of the soul that has
captured America’s elite of higher education?
To start our inquiry, we must look at Harvard’s
founding. John Harvard, who provided
the college’s first endowment, was a
clergyman.
Read the language on Harvard’s seal.
“Veritas Christo et Ecclesiae.”
“Truth for Christ and Church.”
How many of Harvard’s administration
today, of those teaching at Harvard today,
of those learning at Harvard today can
identify with these words from the earliest
days of their university?
I don’t know the exact number, but I
think if we guess zero, we’ll be close to the
truth.
America was founded and built by Christians
who sought truth and worked to make
a better world.
Were there flaws, mistakes? Of course.
They were men.
But the way to improve is to get closer to
the truth, not to throw it in the trash.
Those administering, teaching and learning
at Harvard and our other leading universities
are not consumed by scholarship
and truth-seeking, but by ideology.
Ideology is strikingly similar to another
word: idol. Something man builds for himself
and worships.
It is the product of egotism and pride and
not the product of humility, which comes
only from knowing there is a truth bigger
than you, of which you are part.
Claudine Gay condemned hate and said
her university is about bringing people
with differences together.
This is a university president who does
not see “veritas,” truth, and good and evil
in the world, as embodied and conveyed in
the message on her university seal and its
history.
The job of universities is to pursue truth.
But this is impossible when they do not
believe truth exists. Thinking that the point
is bringing together people rather than
pursing truth is an exercise in ideology, not
scholarship, and leads only to the social,
cultural and spiritual degeneration we are
experiencing.
If we want to save our country, let’s save
our places of learning. Let’s purge the sea
of ethnic, political and ideological clubs
that dominate social and intellectual life at
what are supposed to be our institutions of
learning.
The terrorists are financed by the sale of
oil. That oil was found, developed and is
worth mega-billions because of Western
technology. A disproportionate contribution
to the development of that science and
technology has come from the very people
whose homeland is Israel, against whom
the terrorists commit atrocities.
The United States grew and became
great with the values that brought forth the
miracle that is the modern State of Israel.
The moral relativism and hedonism of
America’s left is now obliterating these
truths.
A new birth of freedom in America
means a new birth of truth and learning at
our universities.
• • •
Star Parker is president of the Center
for Urban Renewal and Education and
host of the weekly television show “Cure
America with Star Parker.”
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