Saturday, June 20, 2026

Ideological Toxic Waste

Instapundit, aka Glenn Reynolds, is a professor of law at U. Tennessee and a prolific columnist. Today his New York Post column unloads on the ideological bias in higher education, and he doesn't hold back.

One industry in America pumps out toxic waste day and night, but suffers no penalty for the damage it causes.

It operates at enormous public and private expense, sucking up hundreds of billions of dollars in government money.

Its toxic bilge poisons much of society, but those who complain about it are often dismissed as ignorant or bigoted.

Its product is largely free of state and federal regulation.

That industry is higher education.

And the toxic waste it emits isn’t chemical but intellectual sludge, in the form of racial bigotry, antisemitism and crude Marxism.

I've been retired for roughly 20 years, and it was less bad when I was still active. I wish I could say he is wrong. Alas, I cannot.