What role do you think religion plays in this decline of our universities?
It’s not so much religion in itself rather one religion is being replaced by another. Secularism is after all, a form of religion. The same holds true for the Roman empire, it fell victim to the gnawing invasion of Christianity. Not all religion needs a God or an after life. If we view religion as a belief system then secular communism is one as well. It’s adherents need to validate their beliefs, the only way to do that as the muslims learned long ago, is that when you can’t convert them, you kill them. Stalin and Mao tried as did Caligula and Nero before them. It’s amazing tat even with all their control of all the levers this is still basically a conservative country. In the end it will be bullets that will determine who the winner is.