After reaching record lows, Americans' confidence in higher education has risen slightly this year. But American universities are still far from escaping the dark woods of distrust.

Higher education is under assault from without and within. Donald Trump is a gangster, using mafia tactics to bully universities into conforming to his ideological illusions rooted in fear, in spectacle, in obedience. But the people were losing faith in the ivory tower long before Trump paraded onto the scene. For decades, they have been disillusioned by the cynicism, intellectual narrowness and greed of the corporate academy, which chose profit over principles while providing knowledge without conscience, skill without reflection, and schooling without heart.

Universities have abandoned soul formation in

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