Trump’s crackdown on ‘woke’ universities has little impact on which big-hitters are jostling for the top spots in higher education. It has been a tough year for universities in America. A key battleground for culture war hostilities, many of the U.S.’s elite institutions have been threatened by the Trump administration with funding cuts, prevented from enrolling international students, accused of accepting antisemitism, and forced to agree to specific policies, for example, on transgender people in sports. Amid the chaos, the annual university rankings, published by U.S. News & World Report, reveal that despite enormous uncertainty, some things don’t change that...