None of this is new, it’s just more out in the open now. How else could suck lackluster people rise to high positions in academia? “Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach”.
The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
The meat of the book is a careful empirical analysis of dozens of politically-correct policies and theories, from the “war on poverty” to crime, environmentalism, the public school monopoly, affirmative action, and many others. In each case, Sowell shows how the anointed simply ignore evidence (and common sense), invent vocabulary designed to preempt issues rather than debate them (i.e., referring to the U.S. Postal Service, but not your typical grocery store, as a “public service”), and persistently declare their moral superiority over those who would disagree with them.
We just “celebrated” a National Holiday for a supreme plagiarizer and womanizer to placate a segment of our population. This acceptance has bled throughout academia and our society. In a real world the man would have his accolades stripped.