Are Academic Institutions Relevant to the Current Political Landscape?

There's a global narrative that i think explains some of this. The united states has 100, like, almost fully corporatized and privateized higher education. In doing so, we've also defunded public arts, humanities and social science investment. And am, their research is valued on its own terms. There's the sense that academic institutions have to be extremely relevant to the current political landscape. This lack of cultural, historical commitment to independent thought is extremely dangerous,. and i think is creating this collapsed space.