Source: Law & Liberty
by George Hawley
“The modern conservative movement’s antipathy toward academia was present at the moment of its birth. William F. Buckley became a national figure thanks to his 1951 book, God and Man at Yale, which attacked his alma mater for abandoning its Christian heritage and embracing left-wing economics. … Fortunately for conservatives, the war on Marxist academics had few apparent downsides. Professors are a negligible part of the electorate, and unlikely to vote for conservative candidates in any event. Despite claims that universities were propaganda machines churning out radical leftists at an industrial scale, the Republican Party continued to perform well among college graduates throughout the second half of the twentieth century. This has changed.” (03/18/25)