Hillary will be the nominee two years hence. Not Warren. Not Sanders.

[Jackpine Radical]

106. I think you're exactly right. You've set off a cascade of thoughts.

The campuses were the focal points of the antiwar movement precisely because they had succeeded in their goal of fostering the development of questioning, sophisticated, compassionate human beings.

The bureaucracy always gave lip service to those goals of liberal education and made it possible for veterans to go to school after WWII, but the system was unprepared for the broader social consequences of expanding access to good university educations to children of the working class. The response has been to try to shut down the portals. The "goals & objectives" bit was maybe the first strike. Then Reagan shut down free access to the University of California system. Tuitions escalated around the country. For-profit "universities"--really, glorified trade schools--sprang up everywhere. There is no longer a market for a liberal education. Our kids grow up with no sense of where they stand in the grand human cultural endeavor that extends across the millenia.

Ask not who burned the books at Alexandria. It was us.