“[O]ur top schools are obsessed with race, class, and gender but apparently not rigorous in cross-examining the fables and pop fads of their students.”

—  Victor Davis Hanson

2010s, The Deflation of the Academic Brand (2018)

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American military historian, essayist, university professor 1953

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