Source: New York Post
by John Ellis
“Of the 10 sections of President Trump’s Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education, the second is the real key to reform. It asks that schools cultivate a ‘vibrant marketplace of ideas on campus’ — exactly what campus radicals have destroyed, reducing higher education to its present appalling condition. But this remedy also exposes the main weakness of the White House’s compact — and of most reform efforts. Asking radical university staff to create ideological diversity is rather like relying on Nancy Pelosi to choose Republican representatives for the Jan. 6 committee. While radicals remain in control of campuses, reform will proceed glacially — if at all. The discrepancy between what we fund the campuses for and what they are doing is enormous. Promotion of knowledge and understanding has given way to inculcation of a poisonous fringe ideology.” (11/11/25)