The moral bankruptcy of America’s leadership class

In the face of the worst crisis American democracy has faced in living memory, they’re silent or complicit

Friends,

As Trump and his goons strip Americans of our constitutional rights, the silence of the nation’s leadership class is deafening.

I’m old enough to remember when, during the Vietnam War, university presidents utilized their bully pulpits to remind America of its moral center.

Today, university presidents are cowed. One college president recently t…