At our Dallas-Ft. Worth Mises Circle, we discussed the dangers of authoritarian PC culture and the infantilization of American universities. This past week, this issue was driven to the forefront of national conversation. Cheered on by their absurdly leftist professors, we have watched a movement sparked by claims of racial intolerance devolve into petulant demands for more free stuff and explicit attacks on free speech. If there is a silver lining, hopefully these campus demonstrations will awaken more people to the importance of eliminating the state from education altogether.
Dr. Thomas DiLorenzo joined Jeff Deist this week to discuss what is happening on American campuses today. DiLorenzo shares his experiences from behind enemy lines in leftist academia. Are Americans waking up to the decaying state of modern universities?
In case you missed any of them, here are this week’s featured Mises Daily articles and some of our most popular articles at Mises Wire:
- No, the Military Has Not Withered Away Under Obama by Ryan McMaken
- Pope Francis Contradicts Himself on Religious Liberty and Capitalism by Roy Cordato
- Social Security: The Long Slow Default by Kirby Cundiff
- Four Ways to Build a Free Society by Jeff Deist
- When You’re Popular, You Don’t Need Freedom of Speech by Andrew Syrios
- “There, There, Work With Us, And We’ll Cut You In” by Hunter Lewis
- Summer Fellowships: Excellent Research Opportunity by Jonathan Newman
- Academic Welfare Queens by Tho Bishop
- World War I as the Triumph of Progressive Intellectuals by Murray Rothbard
- New York State Bans Fantasy Football by Mark Thornton
- The War on Cash Grows More Painful by Joseph Salerno
- California and New York Are Poorer than You Think by Ryan McMaken
- Can You Find the Crisis? by Carmen Elena Dorobăț
- Government Shutdown Averted: Record-Breaking Spending to Continue by Ryan McMaken
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