Jon Schwarz: The 10 Most Awful Articles in the Weekly Sta...

Jon Schwarz: The 10 Most Awful Articles in the Weekly Standard���s Short Life VI: "'Campus Disrupter' by Naomi Schaefer Riley, 2018. It���s hard to remember in the age of Trump, but conservatives used to be fixated on the fear that American universities were no longer teaching the classics of Western civilization. This article is one of several��of this type published by��the Weekly Standard. Whatever the merits of the Western classics, read this from Book II, Chapter XXXI of Machiavelli���s ���Discourses on Livy.�����Then��think about the Iraq War and ask yourself whether William Kristol, who has a Harvard Ph.D. in government, has ever actually read��these old books.... 'A Prince, therefore, ought to go slowly in undertaking an enterprise upon the representations of an exile, for most of the times he will be left either with shame or very grave injury'...

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