Posted on 08/15/2026 5:54:49 AM PDT by karpov
Universities play—or should play—a critical role helping the next generation of teachers, legislators, judges, and voters understand how to live together in our constitutional republic. For many students, they represent the first opportunity to join with others to address a need or advocate for a cause, which is a freedom central to American liberty. But while the Supreme Court has mostly gotten free speech on campuses right, it has left freedom of association at risk. Congress should ensure that our taxpayer-funded public universities are modeling the constitutional values necessary to preserve the republic for the next 250 years.
In 1831, French statesman Alexis de Tocqueville toured the new United States, seeking to better understand what made early America exceptional in sustaining self-government. One big factor, he believed, was our culture of association. “Americans of all ages, all conditions, and all dispositions constantly form associations,” he wrote. “Wherever at the head of some new undertaking you see the government of France or a man of rank in England, in the United States you will be sure to find an association.”
Where else would ordinary Americans develop the ability to solve their own civic problems, and where, in the absence of a privileged noble class, would its natural leaders arise? Private associations addressed both. A community that could work together voluntarily to address local needs would reduce the demand for top-down government. And an individual whose natural leadership skills were revealed through work in voluntary associations could show himself worthy of trust in elected office.
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Our taxpayer-funded public universities want to get rid of the Constitution, get rid of the Presidency, get rid of the Senate and (probably) initiate a Committee of Public Safety (if you know what I mean).
Unfortunately, in that market place there are no requirements for Product Safety Labels.
Marxism which is a very popular product in that marketplace should come with a label warning that this product has been shown to cause the collapse of economies and loss of personal freedoms in all cases where this product is used.
Oh, if only they were there to advance their education toward becoming productive members of society.
In their rush to be non-conformists, they become the very mindless sheep they claim to despise -- following professors with nothing to contribute but shallow and failed ideals.
Well put.
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