If the historically black parents of historically black Howard University students want to burn their historically black life savings on completely worthless degrees in Race & Journalism, let them. If Barnum and Bailey College wants to place Nikole Hannah-Jones in sole charge of its nuclear reactor and give courses in splitting the infinitive, let it. What could be more American than slinging every penny you have at the bait-and-switch that calls itself the ‘liberal arts’ in the hope that your child will return from a four-year finishing school a howling snob with the right connections? Isn’t it heartening that, after the horrors of slavery and the disgraces of Jim Crow, historically black parents get to buy into the same hustle as historically white parents? But what, the naysayers say from their leather armchairs, about the effect on society? Well, the collapsing enrollments for liberal arts courses, and the unemployable entitlement of the little princes and princesses they produce, suggests that society in general has no use for arcana like Race & Journalism. This kind of course doesn’t exist to produce journalists. It exists to produce budding functionaries of the left-leaning media-political blob in Washington DC and New York, who then retire early to become professors of Race & Journalism and add more debt-soaked layers to an academic pyramid scheme. It is, though, important for society that we recognize the decay of the university and the collapse of independence in journalism. They cannot be repaired, if repair is possible, without an honest assessment of the damage.