Of the 10 sections of President Trump’s Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education, the second is the real key to reform.

It asks that schools cultivate a “vibrant marketplace of ideas on campus” — exactly what campus radicals have destroyed, reducing higher education to its present appalling condition.

But this remedy also exposes the main weakness of the White House’s compact — and of most reform efforts.

Asking radical university staff to create ideological diversity is rather like relying on Nancy Pelosi to choose Republican representatives for the Jan. 6 committee.

While radicals remain in control of campuses, reform will proceed glacially — if at all.

The discrepancy between what we fund the campuses for and what they are doing is enormous.

Promotion of knowledge and

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