Those important works capture a calamity that began several decades ago. In 1951 William F. Buckley first sounded the alarm in his book God and Man at Yale. But he was not alone. Harvard Hates America are among the books that fortified Buckley s warning of the breakdown of American higher education. But the conservative community was either slow to respond to calls for reform or simply chose not to do so.
Conservatives continue to pour generous donations into unreformed universities.
They entrust their sons and daughters to the same types of deans and professors the authors criticized. I often wonder how this could be. The Disguised Campus. The answer, at least in part, is that our colleges and universities pass themselves off as more conservative than they are. After all, alumni publications constantly remind us of their institutions fine traditions.