Source; Law & Liberty
by Michael Burger
“There is a battle over the university. Consider ‘DEI’ programs, long embedded in university life, or the fight over whether faculty should be permitted to ‘teach divisive concepts,’ or universities’ responses to the war in Gaza. But these are skirmishes. The real battle is over who runs the university anyway. One side claims that universities are independent, and so are free to determine for themselves whether to stay on the DEI trail, and so on. The other claims that universities are responsible to the societies that support them, especially financially. Accordingly, society’s elected representatives can and should actively determine what universities do or teach (e.g., by prohibiting campus DEI programs or mandating certain curriculum). To understand these arguments better, it’s best to step back, far back, to the Middle Ages.” (05/08/25)