A short video from 2021 of Avi Horowitz interviewing students at Yale University was recently re-posted by Prager Univ.  The students in the video found the idea of getting rid of our U.S. Constitution to be plausible and interesting, and moreover, many of them embraced that as a legitimate and desirable goal.  One of the interviewees stated emphatically that our Constitution is a racist document.  Although it is not clear that this brief video represents a majority or even a sizable minority of the students at Yale, it is amazing to this writer that we should hear even a few voices at one of our leading educational institutions so hostile to the fundamental laws that govern our democratic republic.

As a simple-minded person, I grew up with the idea that following the laws of the United States in matters large and small was a blessed opportunity. Following our laws is not something I ever did grudgingly because of a deeper feeling or thought process that by doing so, I was sabotaging my own life and the lives of others.  No.  I grew up wanting to be a law-abiding but reflective citizen because I believed in the fundamental values of law and government that are historically pre-eminent in our country.

At one point, during the anti–Vietnam War protests, I was studying as a graduate student at Harvard, and a cadre of students had chained the doors and barricaded themselves into one of the administrative buildings as a protest against the war.  I agreed that there were legitimate areas to debate about war policy, but an unalloyed opposition to the war to the extent of actually breaking the law in order to communicate the intensity of that opposition was over........

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