The Left’s “long march through the institutions” has been remarkably successful in education, where so many of our colleges and universities are staffed by people who are eager to spread their opinions to students. They view themselves as change agents.

In today’s Martin Center article, Duke student Sherman Criner looks at the woeful, heavily politicized offerings in the university’s History Department.

He writes, “For starters, there are far too few American History professors who specialize in non-identitarian fields. Of the 16 professors listed under ‘United States & North America,’ only four are credited with teaching the nation’s history through a lens not primarily shaped by identity. More striking still, over 51 percent of the department’s course offerings, 46 to be exact, are explicitly devoted to themes of racial- and social-justice movements. It’s worth asking whether such a concentrated emphasis risks narrowing the intellectual scope of historical inquiry at the expense of students and faculty.”

Duke even has a disgustingly dishonest course claiming that Milton Friedman was behind the attack on public education through “whiteness.”

Criner concludes, “There are colleges where American history is not simply a catalog of grievances or identities but the complex, sometimes flawed, but always fascinating story of a nation’s development. If Duke will not offer that education, then students must find it elsewhere.”