American higher education has gotten a bad rap lately. 

To be fair, much of it is deserved. Far from marketplaces of ideas, universities are hostile to dissenting viewpoints. Faculty openly discriminate against their colleagues on political grounds. Universities’ reputations have taken back-to-back-to-back hits from replication, antisemitism, and plagiarism crises. Academic hoaxes have exposed entire fields of study as preposterous. 

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