While the ideas extent in comtemporary academia are trash, the hard political and economic mechanism that allows them to persist and spread to the exclusion of good ideas is TENURE.
The evil of tenure is it allows a self-selecting group to exclude others and to achieve an independence from outside accoutability. I returned to grad school for an MBA at age 45 and was shocked by the BS, in-fighting, and mediocrity of the facility, even in B-school. Finance and accounting were better than marketing, by far. Political science was a waste.
We must crush tenure if we are to recapture our academic institutions and replace it with trustees who will insist on service to Western Civilization and the students who will perpetuate it from professors and administrators.
