If you had to pick a single institution more responsible for America’s social and political problems than any other, one stands out: higher education.
Yet that may be starting to change, even if the process is slow and the road long.
In just the past two years, and especially the past six months, US colleges and universities have faced a reckoning.
Their highly corrosive ills — affirmative action, DEI, radical faculty, bureaucratic bloat, raging antisemitism, sky-high tuitions, racist policies, flawed research and even their failure to teach — have all been exposed for the world to see.
Yet a combination of court rulings, congressional hearings, public opinion and, not least, President Donald Trump’s commendable pressure have sparked some small but notable changes.
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The result could be a welcome new focus on the colleges’ original goals: teaching, merit,