Scholars and Schemers: How the Left Ruined Higher Education

08/07/2025 William L. Anderson

One cannot deny that American institutions have been corrupted by leftist thought, which demonstrates the success of Italian communist Antonio Gramsci’s call to bring about socialism in the West by eroding the institutional barriers against it.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/scholars-and-schemers-how-left-ruined-higher-education

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