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A committee of eighteen Cornell professors has issued a 238-page report declaring that the university must not recruit right-leaning scholars because such scholars oppose DEI. The decision formalizes the exclusion of any voice that challenges the reigning orthodoxy of the managerial class.
These guardians of the modern academy speak plainly: viewpoint diversity itself threatens the institutional creed. By their own admission, the presence of scholars who reject the leveling of every difference into managed equity would disrupt the apparatus they have erected.
The ancient universities of Christendom were founded under the conviction that truth is discovered, not decreed by committee. From Paris to Oxford, the medieval masters ordered their inquiries under the sovereign Word and the authority of the creeds, not under the shifting demands of temporal power.
Today the same institutions have been seized by a new priesthood that measures every appointment by loyalty to the current regime of equity. The Realist principle that being precedes opinion has been inverted; opinion now dictates what may exist within the walls.
When the faculty refuse to hire those who dissent from DEI, they do not defend scholarship. They enforce a narrow confession that treats the sovereignty of God, the authority of fatherhood, and the integrity of the nation as threats to be neutralized.
The Augustinian distinction between the City of God and the City of Man makes the matter plain. Cornell has chosen the earthly city and its administrative sacraments over the search for truth that once defined the Western university.
The Faithful Remnant therefore cannot look to these captured institutions for formation. They must build new colleges, new guilds of learning, and new households where the old creeds and the old disciplines are again honored as the measure of reality.
Every refusal to hire a conservative scholar is a fresh act of dispossession. The response must be the deliberate construction of parallel orders that owe nothing to the managerial priesthood and its creeds.
