Higher Education and Government Funding: Elite and Effete Universities Get Their Comeuppance

I rarely stray from my art lane and never write about politics but sometimes cite absolute truths since, in these parlous times, they need to be repeated and reinforced. Men in women’s sports? Daft, and a grotesque assault on women. Queers for Palestine? Queers, you go first. “Splat” lands the fey dunce as he/she/thez plunges from a Rafah roof. Canada as the 51st state? Who’d want them? They’re socialists.

Colleges and universities need the slap of firm government? Indubitably. They’re too essential, too powerful, and too rich to be left to rot from vice. They won’t save themselves. So the government ought to be using carrots as well as cudgels and cleavers to put them right. If left on their own, they’ll destroy the country.

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Brian T. Allen

Brian T. Allen is National Review’s art critic.

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I rarely stray from my art lane and never write about politics but sometimes cite absolute truths since, in these parlous times, they need to be repeated and reinforced. Men in women’s sports? Daft, and a grotesque assault on women. Queers for Palestine? Queers, you go first. “Splat” lands the fey dunce as he/she/thez plunges from a Rafah roof. Canada as the 51st state? Who’d want them? They’re socialists.

Colleges and universities need the slap of firm government? Indubitably. They’re too essential, too powerful, and too rich to be left to rot from vice. They won’t save themselves. So the government ought to be using carrots as well as cudgels and cleavers to put them right. If left on their own, they’ll destroy the country.