God Bless Betsy DeVos

I've become so used to the seemingly non-stop parade of insanity in contemporary academia that this...I hardly know what to say. 

   I revere Obama and revile Trump...but on this issue there's just no doubt that Obama's Department of Education did great harm, and Trump's seems to have corrected it. De Vos has been ridiculed (occasionally justly--see: grizzly attacks) for being unqualified...but, to be honest, being unqualified may very well be the best qualification you can have given the state of contemporary education education. Ed schools and the education bureaucracy are filled with utterly daft theories, most of which have some link to the anti-liberal left. Given the choice between someone steeped in that nonsense and someone with no experience with education at all, I'd likely pick the latter. Starting from a clean slate is better than starting from a slate covered in nonsense. 

   I think this points to the contours of a general disagreement between conservatives and liberals/progressives: the latter are alleged to revere expertise, whereas the former are alleged to trust more to the policy judgments of the common man. I used to be firmly in the latter camp, and now I've begun to incline toward the former. I do so largely, I take it, for the same reason many conservatives incline that way: many alleged experts aren't allegedly experts because of intelligence and relevant knowledge; they're where they are because the left has colonized/subjugated the relevant area of study, and instilled leftist dogma as the orthodoxy...and "experts" have the preferred politics. This sets up the progressive two-step: take over a discipline, then appeal to the consensus in that discipline as evidence that progressive policy inclinations are "scientific." Oh: third step: ridicule conservatives for being antiscientific...

   Anyway: props to DeVos and her people for restoring some sanity with respect to Title IX.

   Oh and: beware the comments under the story, of course...unless you still deny that anti-liberal madness has become widespread on the left. Then, by all means, you should read the comments.