Antonin Scalia’s Prophetic Speech on the Crisis of Higher Education
Preserving the “uncompromisable standards of human conduct . . . the West has derived from and through the Jews.”
December 15, 2023
Preserving the “uncompromisable standards of human conduct . . . the West has derived from and through the Jews.”
The current crisis on college campuses, as Mosaic readers know, has been a long time in coming. In a 1997 speech marking Holocaust Memorial Day, the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia seemed to predict it, as Rabbi Meir Soloveichik observes:
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The current crisis on college campuses, as Mosaic readers know, has been a long time in coming. In a 1997 speech marking Holocaust Memorial Day, the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia seemed to predict it, as Rabbi Meir Soloveichik observes:
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