Now matters have changed again and many of the new presidents represent the current political correctness reflected by the “diversity, equity and inclusion” (DEI) bureaucracies. Many also represent, or are sympathetic to, woke progressive movements that today dominate many campuses.

As Ecclesiastes observed, “to everything there is a season”. This seems to be the season for woke cowardice. Many of the current university presidents also seem to come from a cookie-cutter. They are different from previous university presidents but seem quite similar to each other in their pandering to the DEI and progressive woke constituencies on campus.

The recent spate of rabid anti-Semitism on so many campuses has posed enormous challenges to this new breed of university presidents. For the most part they have failed miserably to meet these challenges, as reflected by the big three who testified so ineptly.

[To look at this systemically, it’s clear that the DEI/CRT pedagogical and political agendas in Academia have been exposed as utterly useless at producing effective leadership. It may have had good intentions in the beginning, but it produces nothing but mediocrities protected from any accountability by victimology narratives. All the Claudine Gays, Sally Kornbluths, and Liz Magills can do is punish critics and hide behind values that they have expressly rejected for others, ‘free speech’ being the flavor of the moment. In this, the systems in place share a lot with the outcomes in Marxist systems on which they’re based. Identitarian power structures perform just as badly as class-based power structures in vaulting mediocrities and worse into power at the expense of their societies. — Ed]