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Winfield Myers: “When the Chronicle of Higher Education asked 11 college presidents, professors, and authors to write the heart of their would-be addresses to this year’s graduating class at Virginia Tech, the result was appalling. With only a few exceptions, contributors offered little more than politically correct pablum.”

He’s right. But what’s really offensive is not the political correctness (one essay decries “gunism”; another exerts students to “create a space for peace”) but the horrendous, desiccated prose offered by these academics. The writing quality of the presidents of today’s universities is the best argument yet for bringing the Western canon back into the classroom—as required reading.