Bruce Chapman observes that despite his alma mater's having been named after a preacher, John Harvard, recent sentiment among the faculty goes against Harvard's religious heritage.
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Perhaps the Freedom From Religion Foundation should demand that the old man's seated statue be removed from Harvard Yard and the name of the college changed to Pinker.
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John Searle, the eminent professor of philosophy at U.C. Berkeley, once said that "there is a sense in which materialism is the religion of our time."
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It takes guts to empower students to explore hot topics. Sacred cows may be tipped. But there's no learning, and no innovation, without some risk to the status quo.
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