PATRICK LAWRENCE: Our Age of Unreason
Remarks delivered in late August at the annual congress of Mut zur Ethik, which translates (a little awkwardly) as “the courage of one’s ethics.” This group gathers in Zürich’s environs each summer to hear a variety of speakers consider a selected…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Trump’s War on the Future Has a Past
The Trump-McMahon education edict: You will cooperate as we destroy the tradition of intellectual exploration that has endured for a thousand years — or we will starve you. Last autumn, well into the Trump regime’s full-frontal attacks on American universities…