A tremendous essay, Janice. Getting rid of DEI will take a while, if indeed anybody who could make that happen really wants to get rid of it. When I was looking for academic jobs in the late 70s and 80s I often heard "we had to hire a woman," a DEI refrain before DEI itself. If there is any hope, I would see it in the general decline of the college-university complex, which long ago dropped the serious business of teaching people to think and analyze and articulate. As colleges shrink, so will the influence of the professoriate. Socratic teaching was too adversarial for the profs, especially for women and feminist men. It was unacceptable to see one view as better or worse than another. Somebody's feelings might be hurt! As this rot set in, higher education swelled its administration and increasingly relied in evaluation-sensitive part-time teachers. College became very expensive. At the same time, its effectiveness was diluted. Then people discovered that in a good job market a degree was not needed, and that in a poor one it was little help. The business world saw the uselessness of higher ed and set up their own training programs. The ed market has slowly been getting the message. In the future, one can hope, there will be fewer profs and academic administrators telling the world what to think and do. No need to mourn the English major, for it died a long time ago and will not be missed.