SOMEWHERE CHARLIE SYKES IS CHUCKLING.

His Prof Scam is thirty years old, and still relevant.  The remnant deanlets and deanlings of the ancien regime still aren't catching on, notes Glenn "Insta Pundit" Reynolds.

Whom the gods would destroy, they first make crazy. And higher education has become objectively crazy. It’s not a shock that taxpayers think their money might be better spent elsewhere than on subsidizing enclaves of insanity. It’s especially true when universities spend so much of their time attacking so many of the Americans who pay taxes to support them, from Trump voters, to Christians, to gun owners and businesspeople. It takes a lot of chutzpah to slap someone in the face and then put your hand out for money, but that’s what universities have been doing for decades and with special force over the past few years.

Yup.

Perhaps the reckoning is coming.

So am I blaming the victims for these budget cuts? Basically, yes, with the proviso that the victims are also perpetrators. For decades, higher education has, often quite consciously and openly, set itself against the larger society in which it is embedded while still expecting support, much like a rebellious adolescent who still expects parents to cover the cellphone bill. Now much of the larger society is having second thoughts, and universities will have to decide whether they want to change or shrink. Sadly, I’m beginning to doubt that they’re smart enough to change.

It's more likely they'll use all manner of rodomontade rhetoric to make it look like a bunch of mean Know-Nothings are picking on them.