If you look at those most active in trying to destroy the United States through uncontrolled immigration, draconian internet policies, support for the Muslim Brotherhood, limousine socialism, and anti-American screeds, they all have one thing in common: they are university-trained, as are many of the lefty voters in blue cities. From Dr. Fauci, who forced masks and school closures for no reason, to the lawyers representing illegal aliens present by the millions, all of those whose actions or statements are directed to weakening the underpinnings of our constitutional republic have diplomas on the wall. The time has come to clip the wings of our versions of Maoist reeducation camps.
The modern universities have gone down the toilet over a period of decades. I tell my old college roommate that our professors were the ones who trained the current crop of professors who actively took part in marginalizing Jews and joining in the orgies of antisemitism on U.S. campuses. Several changes are desperately needed to get self-described "institutions of higher education" reoriented:
1. Get the Government Out of the Student Loan Business
There is a Ferrari dealership at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas, which charges non-buyers to look around. Imagine two people entering at the same time. One is fabulously wealthy and could buy all of the cars present. The other barely has the $15 to buy a ticket to enter. Nobody would suggest that the second fellow has some intrinsic right to buy one of the million-dollar cars present. Nobody would encourage a bank to give him a loan that he may have difficulty paying back so as to have a car that he cannot afford. We need to change the dynamics of universities; the extension of credit to too many people has led to inflated costs, worthless degree programs, and crushing student debt. What, only rich kids will go to college? No. If one has a plan and can get a bank to back him or her, college should be available. Those who go to school and accrue massive debt only to leave with a worthless degree in Comparative Hairstyles should be doing something else. During the Obama years, 25 percent of bachelor's holders were unemployed while another 20 percent were underemployed, making coffee at Starbucks with their degrees in Studies of Studying.
Universities, with fewer students and possibly with some financial obligations for loans taken out by those students, would have to reform their ways. They would have to jettison useless programs and tighten their spending to remain financially viable. Closing the student loan racket would do a great deal to end crushing student debt, useless degrees, and young Americans wasting some of the best years of their lives. Trade schools, technical colleges, apprenticeships, and online learning can offer training and skills that can be converted into income and a career. Sure, it's fun to live in a sorority and go to the Homecoming game. Is that worth $100,000 of debt for the 30 years after graduation?
2. End All Foreign Donations to American Universities
Universities are always looking for money. They don't care where they get their money (as shown by Jeffrey Epstein showering several universities with dough), as long as they have the money to keep the lights on and the professors paid. One of Harvard's strengths is its exquisite ability to convince alumni to part with their money. We can see the corrosive effects of Qatari money on American campuses, where administrators have been hamstrung in throwing out foreign students for their participation in hateful protests against Jews and Israel. Georgetown, the top university for future American diplomats, has received over $1 billion from the Qatari government. They have a campus in Qatar. The Qataris have a say in hiring and course offerings. The Chinese also get their money's worth through research results that make their way back to China from well-funded American professors, as well as visiting students and professors. Other countries have interests that are opposed to those of the United States. As such, they should not be allowed to fund U.S. schools. As with the changes in loans, the financial pressure of lost donations might—might—make universities leaner and more productive.
3. End U.S. Funding to Schools That Promote Anti-American Studies
The U.S. government does not have to play battered wife to American universities. If schools wish to teach that the U.S. is a racist society or that slavery is the underlying source of U.S. success, they should certainly be allowed to do so. The U.S. should politely say that it has no interest in funding courses and professors whose goal is to create graduates who hate their native country. Make schools choose between a graduate seminar on Racist White Male American Presidents Who Were Also Bigoted and $50 million for a state-of-the-art MRI center. Why does the U.S. give billions to dumps like Harvard as they turn out America-hating graduates? Do not force anything. It would be wonderful if they would teach courses on patriotism and the good that the U.S. has done in the world, but we can't expect a new Liberty University or Hillsdale College in the near future. If a university wants to train students to hate the U.S., then Washington doesn't need to fund them.
4. Check Outcomes
Each graduating student should have to take an exit exam to measure his or her aptitude upon leaving College U. Schools should also be forced to publish starting salaries of recent graduates by field. Let incoming students know what they can expect, and let parents and others see how well Johnny grew intellectually while semi-comatose at football games. As with the onus of loans on the schools, having proof of quality will force administrators to make schools shape up. When I entered Harvard, there was one course for Organic Chemistry: Chem. 20. Everyone—both majors and pre-meds—had to take it as required. The pre-meds complained that the course was too hard and was lowering their grades and thus hurting their ability to get into top medical schools. And voila, Chem. 27—Organic Chemistry for pre-meds. I was a teaching fellow for that course. Pressure works—make the schools show how well they train students to succeed in life.
5. Check Up on Foreign Students
We have been told that 80,000 student visas have been canceled. How many of the visa holders have either left the country or been thrown out? If I went to China as an exchange student and badmouthed the country on Facebook, they would give me the boot. The U.S., on this point, should be no different. You have been given a privilege. If you abuse it, then you can go back to Backwardistan and enjoy your one hour of daily electricity. Being in the U.S. is a privilege, and foreign students do not enjoy the Constitutional right to free speech. If you hate the U.S., please hate it from afar.
As the people making many of the critical decisions in the U.S. and beyond are trained in American universities, the time has come to reform them. Get rid of the student loan racket as well as foreign influence operations. Don't fund centers for anti-Americanism and make schools show that their students progress on campus and succeed after leaving. The time has come for the U.S. to make universities return to their traditional position of helping the U.S. lead in the world. The schools have become fat, useless, and anti-American. This situation cannot continue. By applying the above program, schools will either sink or swim. Why should our tax money go to fund a cancer center next to a history department that teaches that the U.S. is still a slave-based, racist country? End the grift and make universities great again.