In this week’s Clarion Call, my colleague Jane Shaw writes about the sorry experience of the Pope Lecture Series at UNC. The idea behind the grant was to bring to campus speakers who had important things to say about reviving the Western tradition. So far, the lecturers have had very little to say that bears on that topic.

Once again, the academic community shows that it doesn’t care about donor intent, but will happily use donated money however it likes.