The Truman Scholarship has become an award for wokeness
There appears to be a strong incentive to keep any right-leaning opinions quiet when applying for a scholarship.
Christian Schneider
Opinion columnist
What do Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, Democratic Delaware Sen. Chris Coons and former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams have in common? As undergraduate college students, each of them was a recipient of the prestigious Truman Scholarship, an award granted to public service-minded college juniors to help them move on to graduate school.
Since 1977, the award, named after President Harry Truman, has been granted to more than 3,000 students. But in recent years, the scholarship has tended to aid only one type of student: the performatively woke.
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