A world in which Ivy League presidents have to care what people outside their institutions think is a new world indeed and not a very welcome one to residents of the Ivy bubble.

Ackman is doubling down. With help from artificial-intelligence technology (and his extensive and well-paid research staff), he’s looking for plagiarism among university administrators and faculty, and odds are he’ll find quite a bit.

As a defensive move, the left-leaning press is trying to normalize plagiarism and stigmatize concerns about it as a “conservative weapon.”

Sounds like it knows there’s a widespread problem.

[Good on all counts, but not sufficient. Even if Ackman finds widespread plagiarism among administrators and tenured faculty, the scope will prevent much from being done about it. The only way to reform Academia is to cut off the firehose of federal funding to it and to starve the administrative class into extinction. See my next headline for the reason why. — Ed]