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ica’s college administrators have the souls of NKVD agents. Like the old Soviet secret police, these higher education commissars leap at the chance to assert total and unquestioned control over those under their dominion. American college campuses, in the wake of the Coronavirus crisis, have become dystopias replete with mass surveillance, imprisonment, and intensive regulation of normal social interaction.
This should profoundly disturb the American people. Fringe ideas on college campuses today are the ruling orthodoxies of tomorrow. Despite potential challenges, the American university system retains hegemony on access to the credentials necessary to join the ruling class. Every single one of tomorrow’s politicians, administrators, and technocrats is sitting in a college classroom today.
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