An article in Heterodox STEM comes to the same conclusion that I came to years ago, as did many others: the universities can't be reformed, because the rot goes so deep that so many people would need to be purged that reforming academia would effectively be isomorphic to dismantling it.
I don't even think denazification is the right model. Woke suffuses the campuses to a far greater degree than national socialism ever achieved in German institutions.
This is why I advocate the Henry VIII solution. Don't reform the monasteries. Dissolve them. Liquidate their stored capital, and put it to better use. Some of that use will involve new educational institutions, and some of that capital will be the remaining human capital whose minds remain uninfected by woke, and whose scholarship would be far more brilliant if they did not have to carry around the deadweight.
The author of this piece notes that conservatives are always on the defensive because they are in the position of explaining nuanced trade-offs while leftists focus on equality and justice … with conservatives agreeing that equality and justice are worthwhile pursuits. Indeed. Which is why equality (and conservatism) must go. Ideologically, the only way to expurgate woke while retaining intellectual freedom is to focus quite ruthlessly on truth and excellence. Which, to put it another way, means to enshrine inequality as a sacred principle, and to define justice as disproportionate rewards going to those who disproportionately deserve them.
