He holds the educational system in contempt and wants to rearrange it according to his likeness. So he writes a book on a subject that he has not studied and therefore does not understand because, as noted, he disdains the institution he intends to usurp. He titles this book Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning and with this on his résumé, he declares himself an authority on a new method of scholarship he calls Classical Christian Education. He establishes a grade school and a college, forming them after his own image, and he cultivates a new market. Then he compiles textbooks to sell to this market and the only recognizable name on these textbooks is his — “Edited by Douglas Wilson” — he granted the imprimatur.

He created the market. He cornered the market. He peddles his goods to the market. Meanwhile, the market has no idea that the people who wrote for his textbooks are utterly ignorant of the subject matter he assigned to them. Just like their senior editor, these people have no credentials; hence the books have no curriculum vitae and consequently these writers plagiarized their material. And the poor folks in the market he created have no idea they’re paying $100 a volume for content they may freely access on Wikipedia, because they naïvely trust his self-declared credibility.

Yeah, I’m pretty sure we found our tool.