Because higher education's governance is easily co-opted by faculty and administrators, because of long-running campaigns of subversion by political radicals, and because academia is especially prone to the natural process of groupthink, it has become an institution that favors dogmatic orthodoxy over truth-seeking. It does not have to stay that way. Legislators and board members have for too long yielded their rightful control over intellectual matters to the faculty and administration. They should take back their power, resisting the cacophony of complaints by entrenched interests that will assuredly result. Employing the reforms in this brief--incrementally and piecemeal, if necessary--will vastly improve the intellectual climate in academia, allowing the free expression of important ideas that need to be heard and discussed, not dismissed out of hand for political reasons.