One thing that “progressives” are really good at is finding ways to use taxpayer money to fund their ideological offensive against America’s traditions. In today’s Martin Center article, Rick Hess exposes another instance of that — the Truman Scholarship program.

He writes:

Last spring, I coauthored an AEI report examining the taxpayer-subsidized Truman Scholarship program, founded in 1975 to identify “aspiring leaders” during their college years and encourage “their commitments to careers in public service.” We found an overwhelming left-wing bias. Among the fellows selected between 2021 and 2023, just six of 182 winners expressed interest in even a single conservative issue. Meanwhile, 72 had explicit interest in ‘woke’ areas like LGBT+ advocacy, DEI, or immigration rights, while dozens more had biographies readily recognizable as left-leaning.

In what is an obvious admission of bias, the foundation has scrubbed all information about its scholarship winners from its website.

But there is some good news.

Hess continues, “Fortunately, the Truman Foundation’s board is in a position to set things right.  You see, the board currently includes Secretary of Education Linda McMahon and renowned Ivy League-slayer New York Rep. Elise Stefanik. They have the opportunity to strike a powerful blow for free inquiry and intellectual heterodoxy at an influential, highly visible program—one that is publicly subsidized and charged with an explicitly nonpartisan public mission.”

Ideally, we would just pull the plug on this, but until that time, good luck in eliminating the bias against non-leftist students.