There is no doubt that there is plenty wrong with higher education today. From the lack of free speech on campuses, to far-left indoctrination, to an abysmal ratio of conservative-to-liberal professors, to the exemption of American and military history in universities, one easily runs out of fingers pointing out all the things that have gone awry at the institutions created to better the next generation. But how did it get this bad? John M. Ellis, who has taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz for more than 50 years, has put together a book that identifies the moments where America’s campuses for higher education became campuses for political activism. “The Breakdown of Higher Education: How It Happened, the Damage It Does, & What Can Be Done” is not a sobering book; it is a downright upsetting one. Sobering would be to identify a problem that is still in its …