More university donors should ‘Go Galt’ in the face of increased campus extremism

Bravo to the ultra-wealthy UPenn alumni who cut off their financial support of the university amid the Hamas/Israel war.

the university for tolerating “an antisemitic Burning Man festival” on campus in September and then drawing “vague equivalences” between Hamas’s murderous Oct. 7 attack and Israel’s self-defense, thus lending “direct succor to evil.”he’s “deeply embarrassed by my association and support of UPenn,” and has refused to “donate another dollar.”

At first, intellectuals tearing down this unprecedented political achievement promised a superior alternative in the form of some type of collectivist utopia — communist, fascist, or socialist. World War Two revealed the full horror of their promise. Intellectuals, Ayn Rand observed, were confronted with a choice: radically rethink their philosophic ideas or abandon the quest for progress. In the humanities, too many chose to abandon progress.

The oppressed/colonized framing the students deploy is but a successor of multiculturalism, a long-standing academic doctrine that admonishes us to view all cultures as equal, even though from the standpoint of life and progress they obviously are not. This doctrine was never about lifting up the less-developed; it was about denying the objective superiority of production over stagnant tradition-worship; of science over religious superstition; of freedom over dictatorship.

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