Truth? What is truth…

“That a man should think he’s Napoleon, or that he’s a woman, may be no surprise, for humans may imagine a wide range of implausible things. But that the claim should be credited, without challenge, as a truth, offers yet another turn in the erosion of our colleges. …
“The question lingering for me now is how so many accomplished people serving as trustees for our colleges, are willing to see their colleges constituted on terms that offer the showiest, most brazen indifference to the signal truth of this matter. Have these men and women now settled in comfortably with the understanding that, whatever colleges represent now in our culture, the respect for truth is no longer one of their defining features?” – Hadley Arkes