In “John Galt to the Rescue,” Jay Schalin takes on the American Association of University Professors. In its latest issue of Academe, the AAUP aims its fire at John Allison, former chairman of the North Carolina bank BB&T, who has directed BB&T Foundation gifts to more than 40 colleges and universities. Nearly all the grants have a requirement that one or more classes on capitalism pay some attention to Ayn Rand, and that some funds be used to distribute Atlas Shrugged to students.

The AAUP considers this an attack on academic freedom. But Jay points out that liberals who give money to universities “have no such need to specify their intentions contractually. They know ahead of time that, from the left’s overwhelming dominance in the humanities, social sciences, and arts, that their aims will be carried out.”

He also says: “While [Ayn Rand’s] philosophy of Objectivism has not entered the mainstream, it is hard to imagine it being more erroneous than the ideas spawned by left-wing icon Karl Marx, who based much of his thinking on the thoroughly discredited Labor Theory of Value, and whose ideas have failed the test of time.” And, of course, Marx is everywhere on campus.

There’s more in that vein.