I read his piece in today’s print edition and agreed with it. Many universities today have lost any moral or philosophical base for their mission. Administrations talk a liberal talk because that keeps them in their offices, but the dollar trumps everything. Beyond Douthat’s examples, consider how most research universities staff increasing numbers of adjunct instructors who are paid starvation wages with no benefits, as some heartless captains of industry would have done to their workers 100 years ago.