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Add up a corrupt admissions system, a corrupt DEI industry, a corrupt therapeutic curriculum, a corrupt method of grading and a corrupt, politicized faculty, and it’s no wonder the Ivy League is in crisis and higher education is in panic. Harvard, with the help of the state of Massachusetts, whose Democrat governor is an alumnus, hopes to issue $675 million in tax-exempt bonds as applications took a 21% dive for the 2025-26 academic year, according to the Washington Free Beacon. This, coupled with rising. “grade inflation”—more and more professors giving out A’s to unqualified students—has many asking right now: Are America’s preeminent institutions of higher learning still worth their salt? Probably not, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.” By that I mean, I went to a rural high school. It wasn’t that competitive, Selma High School. They would just say, “If Victor Hanson applies to Harvard, and he has an A, it’s the same A as somebody from Sacred Heart P