VERITAS INSTITUTE
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Essays and analysis on campus antisemitism, free expression, and institutional accountability, written by the Institute and published here and in the wider press.
The Mission of Higher Education: The Pursuit of Infinite Knowledge and Enablement of Open Free-Speech
Higher education exists to pursue knowledge that is never finished. Warren Nagler argues that universities cannot claim that mission while tolerating intimidation, and that open free speech and student dignity are conditions of scholarship rather than competing values.
Read at IBTimes →Higher Education's Confused, Agnostic Values and Practices Continue to Stoke Antisemitism and Violence
Universities founded on the pursuit of truth have answered anti-Jewish hostility with ambiguity, indifference, delay, and public relations. A case that the failure is not one of policy but of four abandoned virtues: humility, dignity, character, and ability.
Read the article (PDF) →VERITAS: It's More than a T-Shirt Logo (It's About the Third Book)
Walk any university town and you will find the Harvard shield on a sweatshirt: VERITAS spread across three books. Almost nobody knows why the third book was turned face down, or what was lost when it was turned face up. The mark is an argument about unfinished knowledge, not a logo.
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