New Yorker writer Jane Mayer has made plenty of money selling wealthy leftists the “sky is falling” story about how evil, right-wing billionaires are a terrible threat to the world. She has a new book out reprising that theme, Dark Money.

The latest issue of Chronicle Review’s cover blares “How a Handful of Wealthy Reactionaries Tugged Academe to the Right” and inside her story has a somewhat different title: “How Right-Wing Billionaires Infiltrated Higher Education.” (It’s subscribers-only content.)

I would like to suggest a more accurate description what’s going on: “How a Handful of True Liberals are Trying to Get Academe to Make a Safe Space for Non-Statist Thinking.” (But that wouldn’t be scary enough to sell any books.)