President Dwight Eisenhower’s warning about the relationship between government funding and higher education was prescient, and it is being ignored today.
He foresaw the domination of the “nation’s scholars” and worried that government grant funding could lead to an unholy alignment of our academic elite with the government.
This concern has become a reality: throughout the country, professors on college campuses have been recruited to develop tools for monitoring and restricting discourse, betraying the values of free speech.