American decay is flowing from the Ivy League
Zachary Faria
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There is no one culprit behind the civic, legal, and moral decay the country is facing, but there is one institution that is contributing to the problems far more than it is to any solution: the Ivy League.
The three Ivy League law graduates on the Colorado Supreme Court were among the four justices who decided they could remove former President Donald Trump from the ballot for being an insurrectionist despite him not even being charged with that crime. As Ivy Leaguers are wont to do, they decided that their own opinion of the world should control how the world works, creating their own trial verdict out of whole cloth to declare that Trump is disqualified from holding federal office as a result.
A SUPREME ASSAULT ON DEMOCRACY FROM COLORADO COURTS
Again, it is no coincidence that the three Ivy League graduates on the court (from Harvard, Penn, and Yale, respectively) all backed this legal fabrication that they could unilaterally determine when someone violated a criminal law passed by Congress. The assault on democratic norms and the political decay it will cause to the legal system is just the latest in a banner year for the Ivy League.
The surge in antisemitism has come primarily from universities, and it has been the worst at Ivy League schools such as Penn and Harvard. In fact, the presidents of both universities were unable to even say that calling for the genocide of Jews violates their respective student codes of conduct. That even as Harvard threatens sanctions against students for not calling other students by their preferred pronouns.
And, through it all, the gem of the Ivy League is also contributing to academic decay before our very eyes. Harvard President Claudine Gay, fresh off of excusing antisemitism on campus, has been exposed as a serial plagiarist. The university has decided to continue to stand by her, though, despite the fact that she has few academic works already, that those works are now tainted by several allegations of plagiarism, and that Harvard students can be and are expelled for the same conduct.
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The Ivy League’s pompous self-importance sits atop a growing mediocrity, where academic rigor is discarded, and one’s feelings or subjective view of reality (“my truth”) takes priority. Plagiarism from a university president obsessed with identity politics, intellectually bankrupt legal rulings from law school graduates, and rampant antisemitism from students who view themselves as victims of Jews defending themselves from terrorists are the result.
The Ivy League’s prestige now relies on an academic reputation from the past that it no longer lives up to and its connection to rich and powerful people. It has burned through that reputation to present itself as moral arbiters of the country, even as its students and faculty excuse genocidal terrorists and antisemitic hatred. It has rejected meritocracy for mediocrity while pretending to be the same prestigious institution it has always been. It is continuing to do untold damage to the country as a result.