Victor Davis Hanson
I’m posting here a column by Victor Davis Hanson (https://amgreatness.com/2023/10/23/the-sickness-of-our-universities-and-the-cure/)–“The Sickness of Our Universities–and the Cure”–because he’s now saying something that we’ve been saying here for months, if not years:
Our universities are a disgrace, a mess–and the only way to cure the disease is to stop pouring money into it.
That’s what it boils down to. *Curtail government handouts.*Tax university endowments, currently (and wrongly!) tax-exempt. *Stop federal funds. *Require students to pass the equivalent of an SAT test to graduate. *Get government out of the $1.8 trillion student loan business. *And finally, to donors: “Just say no.”
College costs a fortune nowadays, and what are we getting for our money? Not much! What we are getting is a lot of toxic foolishness that does real harm to the American people and our constitutional republic.
It’s got to stop.
Good to see big donors to the Ivy League schools are pulling their money over the students supporting Hamas over Israel.
Hanson is a good egg. Nice points he makes.
He’s an important voice during these times