A Glimpse of Columbia Past

<ns0:p>A Columbia University alumnus reminisces about his graduate training at this vaunted institution and laments that today the professoriate has abandoned the nonprescriptive instruction he received—“as if it were some liberal piety of a discredited past.” Instead, in the politicized classroom “every conclusion is given in advance, and practices … are sacralized by the imaginary imperatives of social justice.”</ns0:p>