Conservative professor rebukes higher ed: ‘Whorehouses and mental wards would be much cheaper’ – The College Fix

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“A conservative professor on campus … an increasing rarity. Well here’s one whose not afraid to tell it like it is regarding today’s “higher ed”.” Admin

 

Higher education is severely broken and dysfunctional.

 

Providence College English Professor Anthony Esolen, a conservative and staunch defender of free speech and academic inquiry in the face of leftist totalitarianism, points out in his new book, “Out of the Ashes,” that there are certain values prioritized on campuses nowadays — and they stand against all rational and moral reason:

 

Debauchery, perversion, contempt for your supposedly benighted ancestors, lazy agnosticism, easy and costless pacifism, political maneuvering, and an enforcement of a new orthodoxy that in denying rational analysis seeks to render itself immune to criticism. You sink yourself in debt to discover that your sons and daughters have been severed from their faith, their morals, and their reason. Whorehouses and mental wards would be much cheaper. They might well be healthier, too.

 

Those are some fighting words, and Esolen is a fighter. (SEE: Embattled conservative professor refuses to be silenced: ‘They did not kill the lion’)

 

One major problem is that right-of-center academics have been scared into silence. Esolen points out:

 

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