Key Sentence: "If Western liberal civilization endures, it will be despite the modern university, not because of it."
That's Dennis Prager's considered opinion. I agree. He writes:
When I was a graduate
student at Columbia University in the early 1970s, I came to the
then-tentative conclusion that I would probably never 
encounter a
morally weaker, more cowardly group of people than college
administrators.
While there are exceptions to this rule and there are other institutions that regularly exhibit as much moral cowardice as universities do, nearly 40 years later my conclusion is no longer tentative. . .
While there are exceptions to this rule and there are other institutions that regularly exhibit as much moral cowardice as universities do, nearly 40 years later my conclusion is no longer tentative. . .
For an explanation of what prompts these comments, read on . .