Ten years from now, American universities may once again be bastions of vigorous and provocative intellectual pursuit, true tolerance, and robust but respectful (and evenly applied, bipartisan) free speech.

You know — everything they have ceased to be for the last 20 years or so, or at least certainly since Donald Trump became president.

That is probably wishful thinking. But if it does happen, we can look back on the congressional hearings last week as the turning point.

That’s not because the entire country got a chance to actually peek behind the veil of how “leading” institutions such as MIT, Harvard and Penn are being run. It’s not because conservative parents and students finally got everyone else to pay attention to what they have been complaining about for years. And it’s certainly not because of some profound epiphany after deep introspection on the part of the great intellects holed up in their ivory towers.

No, if it happens, it would be for one reason: the activist progressive liberals who dominate higher education finally upset the donors who have been unwittingly empowering their twisted pedagogical experiments on the youth of this nation.

If you stop to think about it, the left had successfully gamed the system for a long time. They had managed to marginalize — and demonize — all the “right” people. And the “right” people are the people who don’t write seven- and eight- and nine-figure checks to........

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