Commentary
Dear class of 2026,
Welcome to the beginning of the rest of your life! Ahead of you is four years of a lacklustre education which will saddle you with debt from which you may never emerge. Your professors will teach you not how to think but what to think, and their invitation to question will be just a pretence. Before you leave today, you can register for courses on critical thinking and free will, but make sure to stop at the vaccine clinic on the way out to get your mandated COVID booster.
This is only a little hyperbolic. The truth is our universities are in crisis and their COVID response is just the symptom of a thick culture of censorship and silence….