Back in my college days (American University, Washington, D.C.), required reading included the works of Greek playwrights Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. Long after graduation, they remained on my bookshelf. It was believed for generations that these men, along with philosophers Plato, Cicero, and other great minds, could teach us.

At too many of today's colleges and universities we find courses in LGBTQ history and, according to Campus Reform, a 2023 course at Harvard "aimed to teach students how to prepare for a diversity, equity, and inclusion-filled future." Harvard is not alone in pushing woke courses.

Into this intellectual chasm last week came Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Standing in front of the Acropolis in Athens, Rubio recalled how the Greeks laid the foundation for democracy. Eighty years ago, this would have sounded so obvious that the speech would seem unnecessary. Today's college students seem to know less about the past and get their information mostly through social media. As reflected in test scores, we have discarded the past as one might toss ancient ideas down what George Orwell........

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