… proceeds, and will proceed, no matter how many front page New York Times articles try to shut them down. Yeshivas dedicated to debraining generations of ultraorthodox Jewish children- entire high schools score ZERO on basic literacy exams – are straight out of Alfred Jarry’s absurdist Ubu the King, the 1896 play where debraining machines first appeared.
UD Says: Enjoy the ruckus about Jews who debrain their children. It’s going to get very noisy as it begins to dawn on taxpayers what they’ve been paying for at the ultraorthodox yeshivas. Some good writing will come out of it. Some high-level thinking about the limits of toleration in a liberal state will appear. You’ll learn something. Nothing will change.
September 15th, 2022 at 1:44PM
Yes, but they follow their right wing allies in the conservative movement. It is not like Catholic universities are known for intellectual prowess, only alternative truth (Kelly Conway) and “the truth is not the truth” (RUdy Giuliani. And, after all, Trump learned casuistry at Fordham
September 16th, 2022 at 6:32AM
Joshia: Most Catholic universities are intellectually distinguished — some at a really high level.