Claudine Gay’s brief, scandal-marked tenure as president of Harvard University ended more than a year ago. Yet the milieu of wokeness that facilitated her rise is still entrenched there and at most universities. The problem has still not been addressed. They all need to go.

John V. Lombardi, a former chief executive at too many colleges and universities to list, writes in his 2013 book How Universities Work that universities are “quality engines.” This means corporations, donors, students, and parents seek to get involved with universities because they want some part of the experience of their quality research and teaching. Apart from former President Claudine Gay’s tone-deafness regarding anti-Semitism, it is fair to ask what quality she offered Harvard.

Put another way, it may be helpful to ask an analogous question: What quality did the universities teaching Marxism in former Communist countries offer? The answer, of course, is the quality—if one wishes to call it that—of ideological compliance.

Universities, Lombardi claims, should pursue the true and useful. Therefore, if one accepts the fundamental principles of American constitutional democracy, one should seek education that accepts our Constitution and constitutionally enacted laws as practically true and politically useful. This education in reverence for the law and the Constitution is, in effect, what Abraham Lincoln called “the political religion of the nation.” Compliance with evil ideologies, on the other hand, is neither true nor useful, and compliance with an ideology of racial pessimism and irreverence for the law and its enforcers is what, critics charge, Claudine Gay promulgated at Harvard.