Over at Forbes.com, my colleague George Leef discusses some of the negative unintended consequences of federal interference in higher education. He explains how the incessant push to increase college accessibility has diminished educational quality. Unfortunately, as Leef points out, now that more and more people are waking up to the fact that higher education “costs much more but delivers less value,” some “progressive” defenders of the academy’s status quo are resorting to cheap shots and ad hominem attacks to dismiss reform-minded commentators.