• President Dwight Eisenhower’s warning about the relationship between government funding and higher education was prescient, and it is being ignored today.
• He foresaw the domination of the “nation’s scholars” and worried that government grant funding could lead to an unholy alignment of our academic elite with the government.
• This concern has become a reality: throughout the country, professors on college campuses have been recruited to develop tools for monitoring and restricting discourse, betraying the values of free speech.

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