A staple of The Chronicle of Higher Education is articles by higher education leaders who think they know how to solve the nation’s problems. These bright, breezy pieces almost always call for the government to do more. Problems are never due to prior government meddling, but can always be fixed by waving the magic wand in Washington.

Here’s an example: For More Economic Diversity, Fix Income Inequality by Catharine Hill, president of Vassar. She stuffs in all of the leftist tropes about the one percenters “claiming” way too much income, that higher education is a great way to improve income mobility, that students from poor families ought to be helped so they’ll enroll in prestige schools, and so on.

But the true solution, she maintains, is for the federal government to “fix income inequality” which it can and should do “through macroeconomic, tax, and expenditure policies. Changes in minimum wage policies and greater support for unions on the part of the government could also play a role.”

Utterly clueless.