“We Ran 10 Flagship State Colleges. The War on Higher Ed Won’t Stop With Harvard.”
16th May 2025
The Washington Poop, a Voice of the Crust.
I’ll bet you didn’t know that there was a ‘war on higher ed’ going on. Possibly because there isn’t. No college campus is being strafed or carpet-bombed, no tanks are prowling the streets, no artillery are trashing the library (student protesters have got that covered), no armored personnel cariers are machine-gunning students in their dorms, although that’s the impression that The Usual Suspects are attempting to suggest.
Look, if you took 10 random coaches who each had a history of losing games and got them all together to bloviate about how there is a ‘war on football’, how seriously would you take it? I suspect Not Much.
Education, especially ‘higher ed’, in this country is crap. Everybody knows it. Everybody writes about it. Everybody pretty much believes it. Is this Trump’s fault? I’m sure some people would like to think so, but that’s obvious nonsense.
The reason that ‘higher ed’ in this country is crap is the doing of people like these ‘we ran 10 flagship colleges’ people. They are the reason education sucks at the college level – and people like them are the reason that it sucks all the way down to kindergarten. And yet the Poop points the finger everywhere but where it belongs. Inconceivable.