VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: “The first six months of the Trump administration have not been kind to the experts and the degree-holding classes. . . . Why were our ‘scientific’ pollsters so wrong in the last three presidential elections, and so at odds with the clearly discernible electoral shifts in the general electorate? Where were crackpot ideas like defund the police, transgender males competing in women’s sports, and open borders first born and nurtured? Answer: the university, and higher education in general.”

Flashback: The Suicide of Expertise.