Elite universities are so determined to fight the Trump administration that they’ve decided to double down on their antisemitism, and stick with anti-Israel protestors and ideological rigidity. If they hadn’t abandoned scholarly rigor years ago, they’d remember the first rule of finding yourself in a hole.

Stop digging.

The confrontation breaking out between universities and the president is the latest front in a war of ideas that has raged since Trump took office in January.

The Left often derides it as a “Culture War,” as if it were annoying that conservatives have resolved to reverse very recent changes the Left rammed through on everything from sex to race to meritocracy, pronouns, etc. President Barack Obama, for example, sometimes acted irritated when conservatives refused to go along with his transformative designs.

Remember all those lawn signs during the 2024 campaign that cried out defiantly, “We’re Not Going Back”? They were not about social progress. They were about this protracted war. (Incidentally, you can still get one........

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