The barrage on American higher education has been unrelenting since the start of Donald Trump’s second term as President of the United States. This is in keeping with the beliefs of his support base: Republicans and right-wing think-tanks have often criticised the current state of American higher education. The Heritage Foundation laid a blueprint for Mr. Trump’s second presidency, accusing universities of “engaging in left-wing indoctrination and advancing “woke” ideology through diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programmes.” Mr. Trump himself has accused universities of pushing antisemitic, anti-American, Marxist and “radical left” ideologies, and threatened to take away federal funding, along...