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Rufo almost goes far enough but not quite. Good, masculine leadership creates novel approaches, values creativity and structural evolution, places scientific method over empathetic pleas, demands competence over niceness. Masculine leadership is good when balanced against feminine demands for kindness and recognition of the worth of everyone. The Claremont McKenna example is obviously a dereliction of masculine leadership by men in exactly the same way as the UCF situation he cites. Competent female university leadership must recognize and make as its primary function creative essentialism that male leaders demand. Empathy though important to the central mission of incubating the fulsome greatness of developing young minds can only exist in support of that function, otherwise the university will cease to exist as the primary source of scientific innovation and learning and further devolve into a waste of time and resources.

Naval gazing has rarely advanced societies throughout history. Rigorous, academic searching has.

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