Those Who Oversaw the Universities’ Abandonment of Liberal Education Are Now Its Champions

In a recent essay, the First Amendment scholar Lee Bollinger—who has served as president of both Columbia University and the University of Michigan—put forth a robust defense of universities and the importance of liberal education, in opposition to the current administration’s efforts to hold these institutions accountable for their misdeeds. The problem, writes Peter Berkowitz, isn’t Bollinger’s view of what the university should be, but the fact that that American colleges fall so dramatically short: