Higher Ed Has a Progressive Disease. Can It Be Reversed? - Commentary

The Wall Street Journal Editor-at-Large Gerard Baker writes:  As the academic year winds down, you could be forgiven for thinking American higher education is in an advanced state of moral and spiritual decay. It has been a dispiriting year. To the familiar noisy intolerance of opinions that deviate from modern ideological orthodoxies, we have added new spectacles of academic shame. The presidents of our most prestigious universities demurred when asked whether calls on their campuses for a Jewish genocide are permissible. Meanwhile, campuses have seen sustained and well-orchestrated demonstrations of support for Islamist terrorists.