How did conservative leaning philanthropists allow that to happen?
Because the ‘Conservative philanthropists’ weren’t really interested in anything that didn’t give them an opportunity to make more money.
Though even if they did. There was no one to fill the institutional positions. Conservatives in general withdrew from Academia in pursuit of wealth in the private sector and escaping the left which was rapidly gaining influence in the 50s and 60s. Despite the depreciated value of the degrees. Colleges and Universities still generally produce the white collar people liable to occupy the institutional positions. And there was no one left there to counter the influence of the left
There is isolated pockets of reactionary right trying to push back and challenge left-wing control. But Mainstream Conservatives and to a lesser extent MAGA is all about harping on trade schools.
Which to be fair are important. We need Carpenters, Welders, Plumbers, Mechanics etc. But we also need people in the White Collar and Creative Roles that Conservatives are dead set on ceding to their ideological opposition.
Need to stop treating the market place of ideas as a fair and free market. And instead start stacking the deck to favor you and your ideological allies. Your opposition sure as hell is doing it for their side.
Because the ‘Conservative philanthropists’ weren’t really interested in anything that didn’t give them an opportunity to make more money.
Though even if they did. There was no one to fill the institutional positions. Conservatives in general withdrew from Academia in pursuit of wealth in the private sector and escaping the left which was rapidly gaining influence in the 50s and 60s. Despite the depreciated value of the degrees. Colleges and Universities still generally produce the white collar people liable to occupy the institutional positions. And there was no one left there to counter the influence of the left
There is isolated pockets of reactionary right trying to push back and challenge left-wing control. But Mainstream Conservatives and to a lesser extent MAGA is all about harping on trade schools.
Which to be fair are important. We need Carpenters, Welders, Plumbers, Mechanics etc. But we also need people in the White Collar and Creative Roles that Conservatives are dead set on ceding to their ideological opposition.
Need to stop treating the market place of ideas as a fair and free market. And instead start stacking the deck to favor you and your ideological allies. Your opposition sure as hell is doing it for their side.