America faces a formidable range of calamities: crime out of control, borders in chaos by design, children poorly educated while sexualized and politicized against parental opposition, unconstitutional censorship, a press that does government PR rather than oversight, our institutions and corporations debased in the name of “diversity, equity and inclusion”—and more. To these has been added an outbreak of virulent antisemitism.

Every one of these degradations can be traced wholly or in large part to a single source: the corruption of higher education by radical political activists. …

An advanced society can’t tolerate the capture of its educational system by a fringe political sect that despises its Constitution and way of life. We have no choice: We must take back control of higher education from cultural vandals who have learned nothing from the disastrous history of societies that have implemented their ideas.

[Ellis is a professor emeritus at UC Santa Cruz, so he knows whereof he writes. However, his solution does not go far enough. In order to truly decolonize Academia (as I argued almost two months ago), we have to cut off ALL federal funding for it: student loans, Pell grants, and even research funding. End it entirely, and let the schools try to operate on a non-subsidized basis at their current tuition levels and with current personnel. My solution would not intrude a single whit on speech or access issues; it would simply let the market in higher education operate rationally, and force universities to structure themselves for a much more competitive environment. — Ed]