BOOK REVIEW: “The Confusion on Campus,” by Vincent J. Cannato (reviewing Excellence Without a Soul by Harry R. Lewis), Wall Street Journal, 24 May 2006, p. D12.

Weird book that says higher education in America (focusing on Harvard as the example) prepares only the mind and not the soul, thus it’s failing our society. It’s all just too relativistic, says Lewis.

Strange to see a social conservative bitching about how colleges aren’t doing more to shape men’s souls, when I would have thought such a function is logically left to organized religion. If our universities go down this path, they lose their appeal as magnets for foreign students, in my mind.

Frankly, I never looked to Harvard to shape my soul. The nuns back at Immaculate Conception did that.