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If you want to watch an entire national industry suffer a sudden, violent identity crisis, take a tour of Canadian higher education this autumn. For the past decade, Canadian university presidents and college executives walked around with the smug, self-satisfied aura of visionary global entrepreneurs. They were celebrated in Ottawa and provincial legislatures as titans…
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If you want to observe what happens when a modern European state decides to drop the pretense of the “knowledge economy” and run higher education like a 19th-century meatpacking plant, look at the Netherlands. Over the past year, Dutch campuses have been engulfed in open revolt. Tens of thousands of students and faculty poured onto…
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Whenever diplomatic tensions flare up between Western capitals and Beijing—whether over naval skirmishes in the South China Sea, semiconductor export bans, a sovereign Taiwan, or human rights reports—a very specific ritual plays out across the executive suites of Western higher education. While defense analysts debate deterrence and foreign ministries issue stern communiqués, university provosts and…
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Picture the Tuesday afternoon routine of a college professor in 2026. At 1:00 PM, you step into a tiered lecture hall to teach an advanced seminar on classical political economy or evolutionary biology. At 2:30 PM, you hold “office hours” at a crowded, sticky table in the student union Starbucks because your department doesn’t provide…
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If you want to understand the absurd comedy of modern research publishing, you have to appreciate the great academic grift. Consider how the racket works in the “free, democratic” West. A scholar spends three years conducting research funded by public tax dollars. They write up the findings. They submit the manuscript to a prestigious journal…
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