There’s been a lot of discussion on social media today among professors about what they should say to their students about the election. This is what I said, more or less, to the 40 or so students in my contemporary moral problems course:We had a big election last night. But if you’re going to rely on your own judgment, you should make sure your judgment is worth relying on—that it’s good judgment. In this course, and in many of your other courses, the work you’re doing contributes to your judgment becoming more reliable. Certainly there will be differing views over what kinds of things to say, or whether to mention the election at all.

Source: New York Times November 07, 2024 05:41 UTC