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Can the Current Universities Be Saved?

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Can the Current Universities Be Saved?
A statue of George Washington is seen wearing a flag of Palestine and a keffiyeh as activists and students protest near an encampment at University Yard at George Washington University, in Washington on April 27, 2024. Kent Nishimura/Getty Images
Victor Davis Hanson
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Elite higher education in America—long unquestioned as globally preeminent—is facing a perfect storm.

Victor Davis Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson
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Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and military historian. He is a professor emeritus of classics at California State University, a senior fellow in classics and military history at Stanford University, a fellow of Hillsdale College, and a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness. Mr. Hanson has written 17 books, including “The Western Way of War,” “Fields Without Dreams,” “The Case for Trump,” and “The Dying Citizen.”