New technologies are shaping behaviors and dissolving civilities. Truss foresaw an age of “hair-trigger sensitivity” and “lazy moral relativism combined with aggressive social insolence.” This was 12 years before some Wellesley College professors said, last month, that inviting controversial, a.k.a. Nichols says this equation produces “a Google-fueled, Wikipedia-based, blog-sodden” disdain for even the ideal of expertise. And I am pleased to note that in a career of 40 years, I was only wrong twice.” This official deserved an A grade, like everyone else. Read more from George F. Will’s archive or follow him on Facebook.

Source: Washington Post April 05, 2017 23:26 UTC