…his own personal bogeyman to blame for all the warmongering waste and fiscal foolishness of the Bush era. It’s the nation’s top universities, with their “culture of selfish, cutthroat behavior.”

I’m not so sure myself. Yeah, rich-kid campuses have lots of maturity-challenged spoiled brats running around, imagining that they can do any damned thing they want to and to hell with the consequences. But the whole of our civic culture’s been like that lately. There’s no one real place where it started. And it can only end with individuals demanding, and living, a better way.