How Universities Teach Students to Hate the West

Colleges are teaching generations of students to distrust America’s history and institutions without first understanding what made them worth defending. - The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal 

One example is the recent course Harvard and Native Lands, cross-listed by the English and History departments. 

• Its description declares that “Harvard’s endowment included Native lands expropriated through war, theft, and coercion” and presents the course as an inquiry into “Indigenous dispossession and resistance.” 

That framing is not academic but accusatory: before students have weighed evidence or historical context, the institution is condemned through the vocabulary of criminal appropriation and colonial oppression...