I have had a substack post from academic Nate Honeycut sitting on EA’s metaphorical runway for more than a week now, and I’m sick of looking at it. It is a long, long discourse, citing his research and those of others, to supposedly seek answers to what has gone wrong in higher education, how the public perceives it, and how academia should deal with it. Like so many pundits from te academic side, the essay equivocates and evades stating what should be obvious so as not to, I presume, offend anyone and to maintain the illusion of scholarly dispassion. Jonathan Turley used to write like that, attracting mockery here for finding flamingly unethical conduct “troubling” and “concerning” rather than wrong. Since he’s been red-pilled by the Axis, Turley’s prose had become more direct. He needs to talk to Honeycutt.

As far as I could tell from slogging through 1,778 words, the grand conclusion is that there is even more leftist bias in our colleges and universities than people think, so for higher education to believe that more and better information on how the schools really are will improve their sagging reputation is a serious fallacy. But we knew, didn’t we, that colleges and universities are convinced that their extreme progressive bias is fine and dandy, because it’s so, so right. They are the smart ones, after all. The public doesn’t understand that they know better.

It’s arrogance and prejudice all the way down. I get the Harvard Alumni magazine every month. There has never been an acknowledgement in its pages, not in the regular column by the president, not anywhere, that the selection of Claudine Gay as president despite weak qualifications was signature significance, final proof that Harvard had compromised its academic integrity for progressive activism. Nor has there been any analysis of what is rotten on Harvard’s board, when even undeniable evidence of Gay’s academic misconduct failed to dissuade members that that she had to go. Ultimately, it was a student, writing for The Crimson, who forced accountability by pointing out that a student guilty of what Harvard’s president had done would be expelled.

I’d love to know what happened to that student. I bet she had to go into the witness protection program.