George Will Speaks on NAS's Sustainability Report

National Association of Scholars

Last week George Will addressed the William F. Buckley Society's "Disinvitation Dinner." During his speech he discussed the National Association of Scholars' new report, Sustainability: Higher Education's New Fundamentalism.

Click on the video below to watch the excerpt of his speech. 

Will commented, 

"Recently, the National Association of Scholars, a wonderful outfit of right-minded, and, therefore, small, group of academics published a wonderful report that you all should read..." 

"The doctrine of sustainability, as the word implies, postulates that we live in a world of grinding scarcity and increasing fragility and therefore that we live in a world that requires total control and a permanent crisis."

"...if you can control the promptings of the social environment, you can therefore...control minds."

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