This headline reminds us of what Ed Crane, the founder of the Cato Institute, used to say when opponents of term limits complained it would lead to a “Congress of mediocrity.” His retort: “‘mediocrity would be a vast improvement.”

And by the way, if the high and mighty universities want to be “academically independent” and don’t want to comply with Trump’s new rules (some of which we don’t agree with): don’t take the hundreds of billions of dollars the taxpayers are doling out each year.