Students are completely aware that they are not being educated; they are simply players in a cynical indoctrination game. At Northwestern and the University of Michigan, 88 percent of students told researchers that they pretend to be more progressive than they are because they think it will help them succeed academically or socially. I saw exactly this kind of performative dishonesty while covering the Soviet Union years ago.

 

The Rot Creeping Into Our Minds

By David Brooks

Opinion Columnist

     I'm not sure Brooks is describing something new. I recall my freshman year UNC Chapel Hill political science course that was a left wing diatribe against my right wing Bill Buckley National Review upbringing.  But it stuck with me because as Winston Churchill commented if you are young and not on the left you have no heart and if you are old and not on the right you have no brain.