Charlotte Allen has an excellent essay on Minding the Campus, “The ‘Inequality’ Movement — A Campus Product.”

She points out that a lot of our “elite” colleges (and probably quite a few more that don’t make it into the upper reaches of the US News rankings) have programs that revolve around the notion that societies are unjust if they don’t do everything possible to eradicate inequality. Cornell offers a minor in “inequality studies” for students who want to pursue careers in government, policy work, and so on.

I’d be willing to bet that students in those courses never hear any free-market or public-choice arguments that government intervention often makes inequality worse.