A 10-member committee offered a brutal assessment of academia’s role in creating the forces challenging American colleges and universities.

The Justice Department’s demands for admissions-related data from Stanford, Ohio State and the University of California, San Diego, represent a flex of federal power.

The inquiries target antisemitism and admissions policies. The university called it retaliation for refusing to give in to the administration’s demands.

A group of Democratic attorneys general had sued to overturn the Trump administration’s new policy that demanded the past seven years of student application data.

The release of documents tied to Jeffrey Epstein has sent ripples through the worlds of business, politics and academia, including at Columbia, where he helped his girlfriend gain entry.