The events of recent months raise serious questions about the integrity of higher education in the United States. From the ouster of university presidents at Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania after the intense pressure of activist donors to the arrests of scores of demonstrating students at Columbia University and the censorship of the valedictorian of the University of Southern California, it is very reasonable to ask: Who do our universities serve? Do university presidents answer to the agenda of donors who provide them with shiny new buildings and endowed chairs, or is their primary responsibility to foster the critical...