In today’s Pope Center Clarion Call, Jane Shaw expresses optimism that beneficial changes regarding higher education may be coming. Specifically, she argues that “Climategate” has opened a lot of people’s eyes to the fact that some professors are more interested in research money and career advancement than in the truth; that the leftist bias in the academic world is becoming more and more evident; that the surging popularity of Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged seems to indicate that more students understand the importance of capitalism and freedom; and that my argument that college has been greatly oversold is gaining ground.

I think Jane is right. The time when higher education was a sacred cow is past.