[The Critic] Graduation Blues

Universities that have morphed into woke-neoliberal engines of uprooting and atomization are undeserving of our reminiscence.

All nostalgia can be said to be naïve to a degree, but looking fondly back upon one’s college years, as most of us do, takes a special measure of selective overlook. Students abroad in particular, uprooted hence free, face hardships of acculturation often memory-holed at graduation, more swiftly so if the bittersweet ceremony preludes repatriation. My brother’s commencement at our alma mater last week was unlikely to recall distress, my chest inflated instead with pride fusing the brotherly and alumni varieties. What it evoked instead was foreboding at the institution’s future — and that of the modern university at large.

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