Reader reaction to Monday’s story on the near political monoculture among Yale faculty is consistent with this column’s recent experience. Your humble correspondent has lately been struck by the number of people in conversation who cite politicized education as the country’s biggest problem. Of course the problem goes way beyond Yale.

At the University of Chicago, Matthew Lee reports this week in the Chicago Maroon student newspaper that of $193,985 in political donations in the 2020 election cycle given by University of...