What to Do with Those Divestment Savings . . .

Barnard College in New York City isn’t a religious school—unless you count the usual genuflections at the altars of diversity, feminism, environmentalism, and the like. Nonetheless, The Scrapbook is proud to bestow upon Barnard—with all due fanfare—the first-ever Weekly Standard St. Augustine Award for Virtue Postponed.

Early this month, Barnard’s board of trustees succumbed to student and faculty demands that the school divest from its $286 million endowment “fossil fuel companies that deny climate science or otherwise seek to thwart efforts to mitigate the impact of climate change.”