The universities and US Intelligence.

It counts as one of the great disasters that ever struck this country that higher education became the playground of dreamers and fools:

The administrative staff of the intelligence community is university educated. The average American has yet to grasp the ideological baggage that attends such education. Academics overwhelmingly lean to the left, which signifies all that is “progressive,” humane and utopian. At the same time, nonsense is nonsense. We should not be surprised, therefore, if those who skip blissfully from the groves of academe to the corridors of Spooky Hollow, are just as worldly unwise as the pot smoking professors who praise Mao and Castro, or denounce President Bush as a “Hitler.” Richard A. Posner aptly noted in his book, Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline, “[The failures of academic analysts] raise serious questions about the ability of professors to comment on current events at all. Academic time is not real time. The intellectual skills honed in
academia are poorly adapted to perceptive commentary on the confusing onrush of contemporaneous events.” He also noted: “The chief culprit in the quality problems of the public-intellectual market is the modern university."

“A Question of Intelligence.” By J. R. Nyquist, Financial Sense Online, 10/21/05.