1970’S SCRANTON REPORT — THE BEGINNING OF THE END IN HIGHER EDUCATION:

In 1970, Richard Nixon established the President’s Commission on Campus Unrest, which came to be known by the last name of its chairman, former Pennsylvania governor William Scranton. In the wake of the killings of four protesters at Kent State University in Ohio and two at Jackson State University in Mississippi, the administration thought it necessary to investigate campus unrest and offer guidance to universities and the public on what to do about it… Despite the seriousness of the problems back then — or perhaps because of it — the Scranton Report exudes a calm confidence, the sense that level-headed people from different sides of an issue can get together to investigate a problem and arrive at a solution.

Of course, that argues that the left seeks solutions to problems, when in reality, keeping issues (and voters) inflamed helps them to consolidate and grow their power.

Read the whole thing.

Related: Meanwhile back in 2016, “Inside the academic guilt machine” — “The Gestalt of Guilt.”