Posted on 04/04/2025 6:14:43 AM PDT by karpov
It is worrisome that “progressive” activism has managed to infiltrate so much of American higher education, but wildly politicized sociology and English departments can do us only marginal damage. Few students are interested in the ravings of those professors, and almost no one is influenced by their writings.
On the other hand, the leftist capture of our law schools is a very serious matter. How we educate future lawyers and judges affects society as a whole. The corruption of our legal system is not a minor illness we can shake off; it’s a life-threatening disease.
In his new book Lawless: The Miseducation of America’s Elites, legal scholar Ilya Shapiro explores the disastrous impact of leftist ideology in our law schools. He writes, “You’d think that legal faculty would be in the vanguard of protections for free speech and due process, given their deep understanding of the law. But it’s at law schools in particular that academic freedom is under threat, free speech in retreat, and civil discourse a thing of the past.”
Shapiro’s account is not abstract and theoretical. The book abounds in evidence, starting with his own experience at the hands of intolerant students, uncivil fellow professors, and cowardly administrators.
After years of working on legal issues for the Cato Institute, Shapiro was hired to head a new constitutional-law program at Georgetown Law School. But just before he was to begin there, he made the mistake of communicating his thoughts about President Biden’s announcement that he would only consider nominating a black woman to fill the Supreme Court seat being vacated by Justice Breyer. Shapiro tweeted that he thought it regrettable that the president would rule out all other possible jurists. For writing that, he was immediately attacked as a racist.
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There are ten Karl Marx for every Ayn Rand.
Any number of Marxists is still too many.
I’m thinking we don’t want to many like Ayn Rand, she had only some good ideas, not foundational American views/values.
AutoPen Joe, the senile racist kiddie-diddling POS, selected an airhead whose opinions are written by her law clerks.
the puppeteers of Supreme Court Seat 2:
Katharine Janes [Virginia (2021)]
Joseph R. Landry [Columbia (2016)]
Nicolas "Nic" Riley [Yale (2011)]
Donovan Stone [Duke (2020)]
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