Media and Academia: Increasingly Irrelevant, Increasingly Distrusted

The story of modern academia resembles that of the modern press: an institution designed to provide continuity, trust, and a coherent worldview between generations that has become hollowed out by political factions and twisted into an intensely unlikeable caricature of its former self.

Last week began poorly for higher education with the American Association of University Professors’ unprecedented endorsement of Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, who quipped in April that Vice President JD Vance’s “brown kids” will eventually discover their father thinks they “are less American than everyone else,” and urged Second Lady Usha Vance to “get out” of her marriage while she still can.

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Becket Adams

Becket Adams is a columnist for National Review, the Washington Examiner, and The Hill.

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The story of modern academia resembles that of the modern press: an institution designed to provide continuity, trust, and a coherent worldview between generations that has become hollowed out by political factions and twisted into an intensely unlikeable caricature of its former self.

Last week began poorly for higher education with the American Association of University Professors’ unprecedented endorsement of Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, who quipped in April that Vice President JD Vance’s “brown kids” will eventually discover their father thinks they “are less American than everyone else,” and urged Second Lady Usha Vance to “get out” of her marriage while she still can.