Beevis and Butthead Do College Studies....

I really get a kick out of these politically and ideologically correct notions that "evil lefties" have been taking over higher education since the 1960s. One has to admire the crackpot notion that college and university administrators trained in management techniques developed under managerial capitalism are inherently leftist. Such notions may be looney but the notion that they are leftist is truly daft and such notions also, of course, miss another thing that is obvious, social scientists and practitioners of the humanities do not, by and large, run universities and colleges these days, not even Oxbridge.

During my lifetime universities and colleges have indeed been taken over by a kabalistic cabal, neoliberals. Neoliberals have brought into universities those good old corporate capitalist mantras of, first, the customer is always right, and second, try not to offend the customer. Additionally, since neoliberal universities are run by devotees of another one of those capitalist mantras, namely, that growth is good, and since so much of financial growth in higher education comes from increasing the number of students or holding on to them, many universities have been recruiting and admitting students from other countries including China. And given the catechismal statement that you should not bite the hand that feeds, well you do the math.