Ivy League Ideological Monoculture Is Useless To The U.S. Military |
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Ivy League Ideological Monoculture Is Useless To The U.S. Military
But the left would rather sacrifice the academy than reverse track.
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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s recent decision to end the Pentagon’s academic partnerships with more than 20 universities and other institutions, including Harvard and other Ivy League schools, has provoked not a little alarmed commentary. In a Washington Post op-ed earlier this month, Big Tech accountability advocate J.B. Branch and retired U.S. Air Force Major Allan E. Cameron argued that “U.S. military officers need to go to Harvard,” and that retreating from America’s flagship research and policy institutions is “a strategic retreat.”
An op-ed in The Hill by Northwestern emeritus law professor Steven Lubet quoted a former Navy SEAL who argued that “Hegseth is cutting off outside sources that provide information that is unavailable anywhere else, and invaluable to the successful prosecution of modern warfare.”
Whether or not Hegseth’s decision to untether senior military training from top-tier American universities is a prudential one in a time of manifold threats to national security, the repudiation of these institutions did not happen in a vacuum. Many decades of decisions by leadership and faculty at universities such as Princeton and Harvard (both alma maters of Hegseth) have created an academic environment that is so toxically left-wing that in many respects they are waging an ideological war against the United States and its founding principles.
A new collection of essays by Harvey C. Mansfield, who was on the faculty at Harvard from 1962 until 2023, shows how bad things have become in the academy, which should be seeking to maintain and perpetuate American excellence and........