The Myth of the Amoral Institution

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There was an excellent article in the February 24 issue of Inside Higher Education. The article is “The Fiction of the Amoral University.” The author, Brian Rosenberg, quotes John J. Mearsheimer’s observation in an address he gave to students at the University of Chicago back in 1997 that Chicago, and indeed all major colleges and universities in the U.S. were “remarkably amoral.” Mearsheimer was careful to make clear, however, that he did not mean to suggest that Chicago...