State universities will survive these sea changes, but what will likely not survive is their core in undergraduate liberal arts education offered by prestigious faculty researchers. Written and oral skills can be developed in writing and speech classes taught by inexpensive lecturers, who can also offer courses in American politics, Latin American literature, and Chinese history. There is no reason for public universities to keep eminent or promising scholars on their payrolls in these fields; indeed, from a fully marketized perspective, there is no reason for the public universities to sustain these research fields at all.

Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, loc. 389