We have spoken before about the erosion of the moral prestige of intellectuals. It's not that they have become immoral (there are exceptions, of course); it's that the majority of society has stopped believing in anything transcendental, anything particularly well-argued, or anything that transcends the mediocrity of the commonplace (there are exceptions, too, now).

In a new stretch, Donald Trump has proposed canceling university grants, including Harvard, the oldest university in the country, in an attempt to reverse the "ideology" he considers hostile to his surprising political ideals. woke.