i wouldn't blame the crisis in our political discourse con of the discursive crisis in which america finds itself to day, i wouldn't blame that on higher education. But we have failed in higher education,. and i fear, are continuing to fail, to deliver the kind of education that equips people to part a in this collective project of self governance. And ti they got plenty of data. The ust ton have all the data. Sot their happy cherry pickand right the r the answer is independent. Ah, the data has not. Higher education has not.