" I don't know that it has become more or less that way. " Universities were mostly founded by Churches - and they were for the Upper Class. They were bastions

" I don't know that it has become more or less that way. " Universities were mostly founded by Churches - and they were for the Upper Class. They were bastions of conservatism in the classical sense. In the 1930's it started to change. Many profs in the 1930's were card carrying Communists. Unlike today, wherein nobody would care, and many would be sympathetic - they would be destroyed in that era if it were found out. Put more simply: Universities were not leftists until the middle of last century. It was the 1960's when things really flipped. There is no 'propaganda' needed: open discussion is suppressed on campus and this is a fact. Banned speakers, profs not allowed to speak of certain issues due to 'trigger warnigs' etc.. All of your comments about 'ACORN' and 'Obama' etc. have nothing to do with academia - those are completely political issues. And FYI it is progressives who are against GMO's - and science indicates they are completely safe. The 'anti vaxxers' are definitely 'anti science' and those groups lean left. Those supporting Chinese medicine, herbal therapy etc. - that's fairly 'anti science' - and those people tend way left. (I have hippie family members who practice Chinese medicine and some of the stuff they do should be illegal. They don't actually diagnose patients with illnesses, but they truly believe they can, by looking at your tongue etc.) I don't support any political ideal, but I would say that 'leftist / progressive' populism on campus is seriously a problem. I think it's mostly the culture and the students, not so much the course material.