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By: Ilana Mercer

Ilana Mercer — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 20:22:53 +0000

What you are describing is more than knowledge deficiency: It’s a lack of critical faculties, a herd-like penchant for trendiness and progressive deconstruction of reality, etc. These students have been selected for something other than the G Factor. By the way, I love Glenn Gould. You are talking a different age, time. I’d welcome a young person who even knew of Schoenberg, however awful his scheme certainly was. And it was.

By: Christopher Paul Condon

Christopher Paul Condon — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 19:14:19 +0000

I graduated from Yale College. My observation about Yale students is that they are very intelligent. Intelligence, however, is not the same as knowledge. Yale students and faculty have a lot of esoteric knowledge, but are deficient in basic knowledge. They know a lot about Andy Warhol, Glenn Gould, Arnold Schonberg, and Franz Kafka, but very little about economics. Nearly all of our elite universities, with maybe one or two exceptions, have very poor departments of economics. Their knowledge of basic historical events is also weak. When it comes to historical events like the Industrial Revolution, WWI, WWII, the Civil War, and the Great Depression, they talk very fast and may be quite eloquent, but they have all the facts wrong.

By: Christopher Paul Condon

Christopher Paul Condon — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 18:56:49 +0000

I don’t know what the situation is now, but the Yale Medical School’s Department of Psychiatry used to have a terrible reputation as a bastion of establishment psychiatry.