Statement Regarding Advanced Learning in Metropolitan New York
In a recent development, a group of scholars, intellectuals, and policy leaders have come together to discuss the need for reform in higher education. The group, assembled by Christopher F. Rufo, includes prominent figures affiliated with various prestigious institutions.
Prominent academics such as Bradley Thompson from Clemson University, Joshua Mitchell from Georgetown University, Scott Yenor from the Claremont Institute, and Peter Boghossian from the University of Austin are part of this collective. Other members include David Rieff, an author, Dan Bonevac from the University of Texas, and Roger Kimball from The New Criterion.
The group has also attracted the attention of public figures like Ben Shapiro from the Daily Wire, Jordan Peterson, Bishop Robert Barron, and Virginia Foxx. Notable scholars like Yoram Hazony from the Edmund Burke Foundation, Jay Greene from the Heritage Foundation, and Carol Swain from Vanderbilt University are also part of this initiative.
The group has presented a statement of principles called the Manhattan Statement, which highlights the crisis in universities, focusing on their ideological capture and departure from founding principles. The statement accuses the universities of violating their compact with the American people, engaging in a long train of abuses, and moving society toward a new kind of tyranny.
The universities have been criticized for their commitment to serve ideology over truth, their political activism, their discrimination practices, and their contribution to digital censorship, public health lockdowns, child sex-trait modification, race-based redistribution, and other infringements on American rights and liberties. The group also points out the universities' corrupting of faculty hiring practices with racial quotas, ideological filters, and diversity statements.
The Manhattan Statement calls for the president of the United States to draft a new contract with the universities, which should include provisions for truth over ideology, freedom of speech, colorblind equality, and civil discourse. This statement was also published at The Free Press.
The group's efforts are not without precedent. The Manhattan Declaration, signed by 70 scientists who worked at the Manhattan Project's Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago, including notable figures such as Leó Szilárd, was a petition urging President Harry S. Truman to inform Japan about the surrender terms before using atomic bombs.
This new group aims to restore the principles of truth, freedom, and equality in higher education, hoping to foster an environment that encourages intellectual diversity and promotes the pursuit of knowledge without political bias.
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