The Revolt Against Academe

by E Wayne Ross on February 8, 2007

The New York Sun: The Revolt Against Academe

At journalism school I flunked my class in “Trends: How to Identify Them, How to Invent Them.”

So I’m not qualified to peg what follows as a genuine social or cultural trend. But it’s happened in four state legislatures already. And we can always hope.

Most recently it’s been percolating in Missouri, where Rep. Jane Cunningham introduced a bill that will surely unnerve many of her state’s higher education bureaucrats.