This leftist monopoly on foreign affairs, however, is not only due to a conservative default, to a sour suspicious retreat in disappointment and offense. At the back of it lies something even more tragic: the
imminent fear in the American noncommitted right that the left, so nicely rooted in American folklore, after all, is riding the Wave of the Future. How, otherwise, could one understand that temperamentally very conservative boards of trustees of colleges and universities have repeatedly hired professors notorious for their leftist ideas? How could one understand that archconservative American businessmen have sent
their sons and especially their daughters to institutions of learning equally well known for their exorbitant rates and their extreme leftism, a leftism pertaining to politics, history, philosophy, economics-and
morals? How often do well-paid Marxists in such places indirectly and even directly tell intellectually innocent maidens-at their hard-toiling fathers' expense-that their procreators are real scoundrels and blood-
suckers? Yet the hard-toiling fathers know all this and both parents accept this state of affairs with a sigh: it is, after all, the "proper thing to do" to provide the dear little thing with a highbrow education in
a college with high social rating and to acquaint her with all "advanced ideas." They might hope that, once safely married to an equally hard-working stockbroker, the good girl would wake up from sweet leftist
dreams and end up as secretary of the local Women's Republican Club.
One apparently has to leave "brains," "ideas," and "new vistas" to those budding leftist eggheads (even if they stand badly in need of a haircut). How, otherwise, can one explain the fact that newspaper owners, editors-in-chief, or radio station proprietors, who have safely overcome their adolescent flirtations with leftism, again and again employ wildly leftist reporters, columnists, and commentators?