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There's a lot of things that make liberal societies attractive, you know, that they are more innovative,

they're richer, they're more culturally rich.

You think of all of the things that have come out of classically liberal societies over the centuries and

you know that's basically the modern world in many respects and I think that we need to

kind of constantly remind ourselves that that's really what we're fighting to

reserve. And now the good fight with Yasha Monk. Believe me, I'm as tired as you are of thinking about yet another story in which parts of American academia have gone mad,

yet another story in which somebody was quote-unquote canceled for their political views.

But what has happened at MIT at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

over the last weeks is, I think, something more than just another campus cancel story.

Dorian Abbott is a geophysicist at the University of Chicago.

He was meant to give a big public lecture on climate change at MIT and then the

campaign to cancel him began. The reason is that he had written a piece in Newsweek in a big national magazine advocating for what he calls a merit fairness and equality framework.

He opposes affirmative action, but he also opposes legacy and athletic admissions, which as he points out,

significantly favor wide applicants.

Whether or not his beliefs are right, they are widely held in the American population.

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