On July 14, the Wall Street Journal ran a letter from a retired college professor who scoffs at the idea of making college free and avers that college is now more about entertainment than education. Here’s the letter:

With regard to Daniel Henninger’s July 7 <a href=”http://” target=”_blank”>Wonder Land column, “The Trumpen Proletariat”: I particularly appreciate Mr. Henninger’s observation that the Clinton campaign should be “laughed and mocked off the map” for suggesting that children of most families should receive free education at public universities. As a retired professor, I feel comfortable in saying that many public universities have become more entertainment venues than institutions of higher learning. The organizational structure of these institutions suggest that academics is more and more an afterthought. At the top of the organizational chart is a president whose main concern is fundraising or some form of external interfacing. Below the president is a usually a provost who divides his or her attention among vice presidents of academic affairs, business, student affairs, diversity and inclusion, development and research. Gone is the day when the vice president of academic affairs was the most important internal interface on a campus. One can argue that individuals with sufficient wealth are free to confer status on their families by conspicuously consuming the services provided by public universities so that their children can learn political correctness. However, the idea that the taxpayer should pay for boarding schools where children can be richly entertained while they grow up truly deserves scorn and ridicule. Gregory O. Ginn, Ph.D. Austin, Texas