India, Feb. 23 -- The controversy surrounding the Galgotias University in the AI Impact Summit has elicited a wave of public shock, a barrage of ridicule, and institutional embarrassment. The intensity of this reaction invites a question: Why should such an episode surprise us at all? Is it not one of the pieces of the anti-science and anti-intellectual age that our higher education space has been ushered in? The Age of Unreason, so to speak. Rather than treating the incident as an aberration attributable to the failings of a single private university, it may be more analytically productive to interpret it as symptomatic of a broader transformation in India's higher education landscape and, more generally, in the political economy of know...