There is probably no profession in which intellectual conformity is more rigidly enforced and vehemently denied than in American “higher” education. Joseph Goebbels's Information Ministry was probably more amenable to heterodox views than the American campus.
Stupid ideas start out masquerading as provocative clever notions in the mind of some obscure chalk besotted wretch and if they find purchase in the fancy of enough of these idiot savants it becomes almost impossible to dislodge them from public discourse.
There is really no institution that consumes so many resources and produces such profoundly toxic and useless ideas and personalities as the American academy.
Very well said.