In the 60’s (yes, the 60’s, Pablo!), Bill Buckley said that he’d rather be governed by the first 200 names in the Boston phone book, than by the faculty at Harvard.
They’ve been militantly leftist for quite some time.
GMTA: from the article:
Note: There’s nothing new about the liberal leanings of the Harvard faculty. As William F. Buckley, the founder of modern conservatism, famously said some 60 years ago:
“I am obliged to confess I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.”