So first, I’ll list a few things that I would not do in an effort to rein in the left-wing identity politics excesses on campus. I would not impose speech codes or try to punish students or faculty for expressing odious opinions. I wouldn’t set rules to prohibit the teaching of certain topics, like critical race theory. I wouldn’t require employees or contractors to sign pledges not to support BDS or any other political cause. And I wouldn’t fire faculty for having the wrong views.

What I would do is make administrative changes that seek to ensure that diverse ideological ideas are permitted on campus and that left-wing ideas are not given special, favorable institutional treatment.

[Before doing any of that, which can’t be done from the outside anyway, we have to cut off the flow of federal funds into Academia, completely and irrevocably. No more federally underwritten student loans, no more Pell Grants, no more scholarships of any kind. Let Academia sell its product on its own and see how far their current indoctrination model takes them. The changes that Barro prescribes will eventually emerge organically from that, or the schools simply won’t survive at all. Either way, it solves the problem. — Ed]