The nation’s universities, particularly so-called elite ones, are in crisis. Speakers are shouted down, professors are afraid of students, students can’t discuss certain topics, and nobody trusts the gowned “experts.” And that’s before Hamas’ attack on Israel revealed these bastions of progressive enlightenment to be the heart of antisemitism in America. Why is this happening? Truth be told, what’s different now from when I was in school 25 years ago isn’t so much that faculties have shifted left. They have a bit, and millennial professors are more activist than their boomer elders, but this is not just the latest conservative...