Once upon a time the U.S. government was extremely generous with higher education — generous to the point of sheer foolishness, considering how the hand got bitten. Because up until the Competition in Contracting Act of 1988, colleges and universities did not have to compete for federal contracts; they were just handed out.

But, not peculiar for institutions increasingly leaning toward moral relativism, experiments were often not done, lab notes were creative writing, or nothing was done at all. So the free ride went quietly away as federal agencies and even the Congress were finally just fed up with non-performance across the academic board.

But another free ride was on the horizon: Foreign students, particularly Middle Eastern ones . . . charge any amount and they’d come. Male students only, of course, and academic feminists looked the other way, because barrels of money were coming into the coffers. Whereas before, despite its notorious slacking on performance, academe was not ungrateful. The slacking was simply the sloth we all knew and loved in school. In the classroom for a very long time the U.S. government could do no wrong. The money spoke quite eloquently.

But now the big bucks come from others, foreign governments, theocratic governments that hate us . . . not for what we do, but what we are. After all, they have the oil, which should spell great wealth, not ignorance and poverty.

So rather than question their own social structure and the belief systems that built it, they blame the kafirs, the unbelievers, for their own ignorance and poverty. And as long as they pump billions into our university systems, our own academics are happy to play to this delusion. In their alleged scholarship, every Islamic claim everywhere is taken at face value. Christian and Jewish histories are open to question, but never the Islamic claim to absolute perfection.

And it all comes down to the money. So in one minor digression, I must say that in the present-day morass of ethics and responsibility, there are some places we can’t reasonably turn to for guidance: academe, the Roman Catholic hierarchy, any Washington politician who’s been feted by shayks (just try to find one who hasn’t been!), business leaders. . . .

We may be yet forced to think for ourselves again! For expert opinion, I personally recommend Dilbert.