When Pratt accepted an award at the 2018 MTV Movie and TV Awards last week, he spoke about God and prayer, even mentioning the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. He was not booed or ignored, but cheered.
The deaths, in the same week last month, of the great scholar of the Middle East Bernard Lewis and the great scholar of Russia Richard Pipes are a warning to American conservatives: don't give up on the universities.
Lewis and Pipes are being rightfully remembered for their influence as advisers to presidents and senators, and as public intellectuals who wrote for newspaper op-ed pages and political magazines.
