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?