The Tyranny of Professorial Rationalism

Kirk

People who think that the Academy is honeycombed with crypto-Communists are wide of the mark. At most, never more than 5 per cent of American college teachers were Communists; and that percentage has declined toward extinction since . the forties. Though one ought not to neglect the possibility of the revival of professorial Marxist cells on the campus, under certain conditions, at present the Communist Party is at its lowest ebb among American scholars since 1917.