One big advantage of American academics’ almost complete silence on the subject of higher ed’s toxic financial model — a vicious circle of reducing Americans to indentured servitude and gouging the latest waves of wealth from abroad — is that it’ll make revisionism much easier. When they’re finally forced to leap to the barricades and they declare how long they’ve opposed this unjust system, you won’t be able to find any trace of them saying something different about it — because they never said anything at all.