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Want to Rebuild Higher Education? Here Is the Guidebook.

The rise of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)—a boom in their boom-and-bust cycle, as my colleague Robert Stilson calls it—has many political observers on the Right and Left analyzing the conditions that led to an embrace of that group’s radicalism.

And they are radical. As Stilson points out, “[i]n its newly updated platform, the DSA calls for (among many other things) the wholesale abolition of capitalism — to be replaced by a centrally planned ‘classless society’ wherein government monopolizes socioeconomic life. It seeks to abolish police, prisons, and immigration enforcement, defund the U.S. military, eliminate the Senate, and remove federal checks-and-balances by making the executive and judicial branches explicitly subordinate to the legislative.”

As for how a constitutional republic like the United States got here, there’s evidence that training in radicalism begins in earnest with a captured system of education, specifically higher education. As the NY Post reports, “More than 80% [of DSA members] are college educated, with 35% holding at least a master’s or professional degree — which is more than twice the national average.”

Which makes the recent publication of a book entitled “Higher Education in America: It’s Worse Than You Think,” edited by Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts, with a forward and conclusion penned by Manhattan Institute’s Chris Rufo, a timely and crucial effort. It serves as something of a guidebook on where things stand, where they might be headed, and how to reverse the........

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