"For the contemporary right, universities are supposedly bent on undermining traditional norms and hierarchies, teaching the young to resent religion, reject family, and hate capitalism."

How the Right Learned to Loathe Higher Education

Conservative dislike of the academy isn’t new. But it is alarming.

By Kim Phillips-Fein January 31, 2019 

For the contemporary right, universities are supposedly bent on undermining traditional norms and hierarchies, teaching the young to resent religion, reject family, and hate capitalism. As a result, the young are going crazy. ("Education is child abuse," as McInnes puts it.) Yet at the same time, conservatives portray the university as the institution that more than any other acts as a gateway to social power. The university’s function as a subversive gatekeeper is what marks it as especially dangerous.