What if higher education responded to plummeting public confidence by demanding a whole lot more of their students, especially through extensive core requirements? Or if professors gave grades that reflected actual performance? Or if administrators responded to rules-breaking through summary expulsions? What if the news media, also facing declining levels of trust, stopped catering to their least literate readers, stopped caring about their angriest ones, stopped publishing dumbed-down versions of the news, and stopped acting as if journalism is just another form of entertainment?
- Bret Stephens, "Conservatives Thinks the Market Always Gets It Right. It Doesn't." [The New York Times, 2024]
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