Universities in the American South are becoming models for fixing higher education. After the COVID lockdowns and amid antisemitic violence and the anti-American and DEI-infused agendas that have taken hold over the past two decades, Southern colleges are now displacing the broken universities in the Northeast that were once benchmarks for elite education. The number of Northeastern high-school students going to Southern colleges has nearly doubled in the last 20 years, thanks largely to lower costs and less-ideologically driven campus cultures. College-admissions experts note that the rise in these schools’ popularity has allowed them to become more selective, boosting their...