Warning: Extreme sarcasm and excessive flippancy to follow. Many scenarios are fictitious, but sadly not all.
From the Stop Woke Act to the New College of Florida takeover, the media devotes a great deal of airtime to Ron DeSantis’s beliefs that colleges and universities indoctrinate students into Communism, along with what he wants to do about it. But isn’t blaming higher education for supporting and promoting equality and independent thought somewhat limiting in scope when the sector could be blamed for so much more? If we are going to accuse education of promoting liberal views, let’s blame it for other things that really matter, too.
Both the Philadelphia Phillies and the Eagles lost their respective championships in the past year. Obviously, higher education needs to do more to support the Phillies and the Eagles. These teams would have won if Philadelphia colleges and…