Orrin Hatch’s “Higher Ed and the Fragmentation of America” (op-ed, July 28) gets to the crux of the issue. If there is no truth to discover because all truth is a matter of opinion, then the university is superfluous. It offers no pipeline to the universals that transcend our own ideas and experiences. There are only “narratives”—and the power to compel others to embrace them on pain of ostracism. In such a world, a university can exist only to propagandize.

Source: Wall Street Journal August 09, 2020 21:33 UTC