Thursday, August 23, 2018

Harvard Should Be Required To Change Its Motto To Mendacium Because Veritas Is False Advertising

Harvard University and, especially, Harvard Law School should suffer derision and shame for maintaining someone like Alan Dershowitz on its faculty and as an emeritus faculty member.   That was true before he retired, as he traded off of his Harvard connection as it is now that he is one of the designated liars to prop up the most corrupt, incompetent disastrous presidency in the history of the country.  Dershowitz's lies have reached Rudy Giuliani levels of shameless absurdity.

As a New Englander who has seen the Harvard product in its full diversity up close, from the rare person who doesn't seem to have had their moral sensibility (or practical competence) destroyed by Harvard to the typically mid-level Harvard grad who is more clever than brilliant, if that, while being a world-class snob, I consider it more of an elite academic brothel than a label guaranteeing even secular quality and certainly not as a grantee of even merely acceptable morality.

The hegemony of Harvard and its fellow elite schools on the Supreme Court, in large areas of the media and politics needs to be broken because, as such things as Alan Dershowitz's presence in American politics and people like Sean Spicer's presence as Harvard honorees prove, it's a disgusting institution.  I'd love to shame them into spending some of their obscene endowment on helping the public schools in the Boston area instead of building up the brothel, I'd love to see them forced into serving the truth that their lying slogan is all about.

1 comment:

  1. https://aeon.co/essays/have-elite-us-colleges-lost-their-moral-purpose-altogether A thoughtful piece on how elite Universities have abandoned even the pretense of creating a moral graduate. One of my best memories from freshman orientation 35 years ago was the university chaplain giving a sobering talk about how based on history members of our school would be given positions of influence and power, but he seriously wondered if we would have the morals to rightly manage such power. His observation I am sure came from watching those before us fail to bring morality to positions of power. Now there isn't even a pretense that universities will turn out a moral graduate, that is antithetical to the whole structure of the liberal university today.

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