Some of our institutions of “higher learning” are getting nuttier by the day, and the competition for being the nuttiest is getting pretty stiff. There are already any number of “Ethnic Underwater Dog-Polishing Studies” classes and even degree programs available, most notably in the Ivy League, and until there is some major reform in education financing, there will probably be more.
Case in point: Columbia University, the site of many highly publicized pro-Hamas riots, is now offering a degree in Climate Finance.
I wasn’t aware that climate needed financing, but here we are. The university’s website says this about the program:
The Columbia Climate School’s mission is to further knowledge and educate leaders to achieve equitable and just solutions to the changing climate and related sustainability challenges.
That’s about as content-free a statement as we’ve seen in a while – at least,…
