THE FEDERALIST: Necessary Elitism And The Demise Of Higher Education.

Gist: Elite is good. Funnel the masses to "more targeted educational pathways that will enable them to find decent employment with a minimum of debt." A liberal education should be "the domain of a relatively small group of people. Young people who are eager and intellectually capable should be encouraged to get a serious liberal arts education, and rewarded with opportunities that justify the investment."

The problems that Lu identifies are real, but she and the academic elites fail to recognize that they have poisoned their own well by becoming liberal, dogmatic, and wrong.