Talk Won’t Cure Academia’s Rot

Talk Won’t Cure Academia’s Rot

Frank Bruni’s recent New York Times op-ed, “Trump Isn’t Fixing America’s Campuses. He’s Bleeding Them Dry.,” was only the latest example of a genre that has become familiar. Thoughtful commentators — Bruni, Harvard University’s Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker and others — acknowledge academia’s failures, admit the reality of ideological capture, and even highlight the corrosive effects of antisemitism and enforced orthodox…