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The Moral Deficiencies of a Liberal Education - Commentary

Ezekiel J. Emanuel, a physician and the vice provost for global initiatives and a professor of medical ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania, writes:  We have failed. When a coalition of 34 student organizations at Harvard can say that they “hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence” and students at other elite universities blame Israel alone for the attack Hamas carried out on Israelis on Oct. 7 or even praise the massacre, something is deeply wrong at America’s colleges and universities. Students spouting ideological catchphrases have revealed their moral obliviousness and the deficiency of their educations. But the deeper problem is not them. It is what they are being taught — or, more specifically, what they are not being taught.
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