I can't believe the New York Times published this; kudos to them. I found it via Power Line.
I'll just give you the two money quotes, then you can go read it all: The Killer in the Lecture Hall by Barbara Oakley
"... in a perfect world, there would be no guns, no mental illness and no Cho Seung-Huis. But the world is very imperfect."
"This is about evil, and about how our universities are able to deal with it as a literary subject but not as a fact of life."
Barbara Oakley is a professor of engineering at Oakland University, and author of the forthcoming “Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed and My Sister Stole My Mother’s Boyfriend.” She teaches a core seminar based on this book.
Professor Oakley has won a number of teaching awards, including the National Science Foundation New Century Scholar and New Faculty Fellow Awards, the John D. and Dorth J. Withrow Teaching Award, and the Naim and Ferial Kheir Teaching Award.
With such high-profile sanity out and about, maybe now I can relax a little and get ready for Shabbos.
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