This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchel with my colleague Peter Berkowitz of the Hoover Institution.

He writes Real Clear Politics column, and he's addressing two major significant figures in American politics,

James Carvel, and now David Brooks, who writes a column very articulately for one of the major newspapers,

but at the same time publishes everywhere.

In this particular case, he published, I believe, in the Atlantic magazine.

And he has a recommendation for our major universities.

How does it go, Peter?

His recommendation responds to what he regards as a problem,

and so do I too. That is the brokenness of our elites, which he recognizes to have been a factor

in Trump's election, that is, dissatisfaction, anger with our elites, led many voters to, into the arms of

Donald Trump's Republican Party.

Brooks blames the brokenness of our elites on our colleges and universities.

I think there's a lot to that.

Almost everybody now who belongs to the elite, certainly the

progressive elite is a college graduate and many of them are graduates of America's most selective

universities. But the problem that David Brooks identifies is somewhat surprising. He says the

problem is that there are universities

form a meritocracy, but they rely too heavily on a narrow definition of merit. That narrow

definition of merit is intelligence as measured by formal test scores and by grade point average. And he says this is too narrow

conception of merit. He's right about that. And he says we need a wider understanding of what

it counts to be an excellent human being. He's right about that.

But he's wrong that if we just corrected these problems,

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