This is one of the most mealy-mouth, cop-out pieces of crap I’ve ever seen in the Economist. For a publication that appeals to the notion of absolute, objective economic realities when dismissing government programs it dislikes, this piece of horseshit masquerading as journalism is one of the most malodorous pieces of hypocrisy I’ve seen recently.
The UC system wishes to ensure people taking science courses understand actual science, rather than religious studies. How, precisely, is this unreasonable? Science courses do not accept students, contrary to the final assertion, whose entire understanding of physics is predicated on a rejection of logic as a patriarchal tools of oppression, either. This is just as absurd.