{"id":12463,"date":"2020-07-03T10:00:28","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T17:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12463"},"modified":"2020-07-02T12:34:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T19:34:31","slug":"universities-sowing-the-seeds-of-their-own-obsolescence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/universities-sowing-the-seeds-of-their-own-obsolescence\/","title":{"rendered":"Universities Sowing the Seeds of Their Own Obsolescence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When&nbsp;mobs tore down a statue of Ulysses S. Grant and defaced a monument to African-American veterans of the Civil War, many people wondered whether the protesters had ever learned anything in high school or college.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did any of these iconoclasts know the difference between Grant and Robert E. Lee? Could they recognize the name \u201cGettysburg\u201d? Could they even identify the decade in which the Civil War was fought?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Universities are certainly teaching our youth to be confident, loud, and self-righteous. But the media blitz during these last several weeks of protests, riots, and looting also revealed a generation that is poorly educated and yet petulant and self-assured without justification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many of the young people on the televised front lines of the protests are in their 20s. But most appear juvenile, at least in comparison to their grandparents \u2014 survivors of the Great Depression and World War II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How can so many so sheltered and prolonged adolescents claim to be all-knowing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/07\/universities-sowing-the-seeds-of-their-own-obsolescence\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review When&nbsp;mobs tore down a statue of Ulysses S. Grant and defaced a monument to African-American veterans of the Civil War, many people wondered whether the protesters had ever learned anything in high school or college. Did any of these iconoclasts know the difference between Grant and Robert E. Lee? 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