Kresta in the Afternoon – December 11, 2023 – Hour 2

Author: Bryant Schoenle Published on: December 11, 2023 Published in: Al Kresta

Why have the leaders of some of America’s most elite colleges been so hesitant to condemn antisemitism? Jay Greene joins us. Also, Mary Ann Glendon looks at the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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Why is it so hard to condemn antisemitism?

The presidents of MIT, Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania have come under fire after they were asked in a Congressional hearing whether their campus hate speech policies ban anti-Semitic speech, and responded that it would depend on the context. On Saturday, Penn President Liz Magill announced her resignation. Jay Greene joins us with the details on this story.

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College Presidents Just Showed America Their Moral Cowardice

Chief Diversity Officers Harm the Students They Say They Help

America Needs a New Strategy Against Antisemitism

Colleges Caught Between Hamas-Supporting Students and Wealthy Donors

Former Campus Radicals Now Teach Your Children

The moral rot starts at the top

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Greene_Jay — Dr. Jay Greene is a Senior Research Fellow in the Center for Education Policy at The Heritage Foundation. The focus of his current research examines the effects of education on character formation and civic values. His past research has covered a diverse set of topics, from randomized controlled trials of private school choice programs to the effects of student field trips to art museums and the theater. His most recent book is a co-edited volume, Religious Liberty and Education: A Case Study of Yeshivas vs. New York. He previously taught at the University of Arkansas, where he served as Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Education Reform, which he founded and led for 16 years. Follow him on Twitter@jaypgreene

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Why the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Still Matters

December 10 marks the 75^th anniversary of the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It’s a document that Mary Ann Glendon has described as “the single most important reference point for cross-cultural discussion of human freedom and dignity in the world today.” She joins us to explain why.

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Knowing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Why the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Remains Significant After 75 Years

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

mary anne glendon — Mary Ann Glendon is the author most recently of In the Courts of Three Popes: An American Lawyer and Diplomat in the Last Absolute Monarchy of the West. She’s Learned Hand Professor of Law emerita at Harvard University and a former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See. In 1995, she led the Vatican delegation to the UN’s World Conference on Women in Beijing, becoming the first woman ever to lead a Vatican delegation. Her other books include Rights Talk; A Nation Under Lawyers; The Transformation of Family Law; A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; and The Forum and the Tower.

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What the Sacraments Really Are

Paragraph 1131 of the Catechism defines the sacraments as efficacious signs of grace, instituted by Christ and entrusted to the Church, by which divine life is dispensed to us.” Finding a metaphor to illustrate this definition can be challenging. David Fagerberg joins us to help understand what the sacraments really are.

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What the Sacraments Really Are