In his latest IngenioUs blog article, David J. Staley offers that we are 'witnessing today a newly-emerging geopolitical reality that will doubtless define the future of the university in the United States.'  Citing William C. Kirby's latest book Empire of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022), Staley suggests that the recent trend of weakening, dismantling and disinvesting in American higher education, occurring precisely when other world powers are retooling and building their universities has potentially dire consequences for America's geostrategic power.