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Ever since I went to college, I have known that, aside from those involved with math, science, engineering and medicine, professors were people who regarded themselves as intellectuals, meaning they knew a lot about a very little. They were people who could bore you for hours on end talking about Polandâs 19th century economy, Rembrandtâs brushstrokes or English madrigals.
When George Orwell observed that there are things so stupid that only an intellectual would believe it, he wasnât just whistling âDixie.â
If anything, things on college campuses have only gotten worse since he said it.
Yaleâs School of Medicine invited New York-based psychiatrist Aruna Khilanani to deliver an online lecture. She told her online audience that she entertained fantasies of unloading a revolver into the head of any white person that got in her way, âburying their body and wiping my bloody hands as I walked away, relatively guiltless, with a bounce in my step. It