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Palantir has launched internal training programs for new graduates because its leaders no longer trust the output of Ivy League and equivalent universities. Jordan Hirsch stated plainly that the old assurance of excellence from those schools has vanished.
The decline traces to the capture of higher education by the Managerial Priesthood, which has subordinated truth-seeking to ideological conformity and administrative expansion. What was once a transmission of inherited wisdom has become an engine of social leveling and credential inflation.
Western Christendom built its first universities under the authority of the Church and the crown, places ordered toward the discovery of objective reality rather than the manufacture of approved opinions. From Paris and Oxford onward, the curriculum served the City of God by forming souls capable of governing households and commonwealths.
Today the same institutions serve the City of Man, elevating group identity over merit and replacing rigorous inquiry with mandated assent. The result is a generation ill-prepared for the demands of technical mastery or moral clarity.
The Realist tradition insists that universals exist independently of human construction and that education must conform the mind to what is rather than what power decrees. When schools abandon this standard, competent actors must withdraw and reconstitute formation elsewhere.
By creating their own pathways, firms like Palantir act as modern guilds, reclaiming the authority to judge fitness for their craft. This move exposes the hollowness of the old credentialing monopoly and restores the principle that competence, not pedigree, determines fitness to serve.
The Faithful Remnant must therefore treat these parallel efforts as models for every sphere still under assault. Households, parishes, and emerging colleges must likewise withdraw consent from captured institutions and build structures that transmit truth rather than ideology.
The hour demands that fathers and elders recover the duty of direct formation so that the next generation stands ready for the defense of faith, family, and nation.
