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The article is a bit one sided, but there is much truth in it. And part of the blame lies with a decades long conservative and GOP indifference to educational policy.

We treat academia as enemy teritory, we fund it, and we rarely take a stance against its follies and excesses. [Lynne Cheney is a shining exception here.]

Now the chickens are coming home to roost.

Richard F.

[concerned about politics]

The article is a bit one sided, but there is much truth in it. And part of the blame lies with a decades long conservative and GOP indifference to educational policy.

Yes, you're right.
We asked the schools to spend their time and money on unimportant stuff like academics.
Heck, and all this time we should have been teaching Marxism/ Maoism.
Where did we go wrong?