The Radicalization of Western Universities
The gravest internal threat to this country is not illegal aliens; it is leftist professors who are waging a war against America and teaching our young people to hate this country.
I recently came across a curious piece of news regarding the radicalization of UK universities: even some Arab countries have warned their citizens not to send their children to certain Western universities lest they become radicalized. Outlets such as The Times, Fox News, The Times of India, and others reported in January 2026 that the UAE had curtailed subsidies for students at UK universities for fear the Muslim Brotherhood would brainwash them.
The Times of Israel quoted JD Vance, who labeled this an “absolutely insane headline” and posted on X that “Some of our best Muslim allies in the Gulf think the Islamist indoctrination in certain parts of the West is too dangerous.”
The Jewish Chronicle reported that “Emirati political scientist … Abdulkhaleq Abdulla said that the Gulf state had, on multiple occasions, raised concerns that Emirati students studying in the UK could be exposed to Muslim Brotherhood-aligned groups.”
Aayan Hirsi Ali famously warned against the subversion of the West by the “twin forces of cultural Marxism and an expansionist political Islam.” She discussed the notorious lecture by KGB operative Yuri Bezmenov, titled “Psychological Warfare, Subversion, and the Control of Society,” which listed four stages of the subversion process: demoralization, destabilization, crisis, and finally, normalization:
Demoralization … requires the subverters’ greatest investment of time and resources. Bezmenov claims the process of demoralization can take between 10 to 30 years, because that is the amount of time it takes to educate a new generation. The demoralization process targets three areas of society: its ideas, its structures, and its social institutions. The targeted institutions include religion, education, media, and culture. In each realm the old ways of thinking, the old heroes, are discredited. Those who believed in them come to doubt themselves and their ability to discern reality itself….
Destabilization is the next phase. This process is considerably shorter, taking anywhere between five months to two years. With demoralization now reaching its full maturity, society is increasingly paralyzed by harsh domestic turmoil across all sectors.… Society turns inward, leading to fear, isolationism, and the decline of the nation-state itself, leading to crisis….
Finally, says Bezmenov, a subverted society enters the normalization stage, which is when the subversive regime takes over, installing its ideology as the law of the land. By then, the enemy has totally conquered the target society — without ever firing a shot.
Jason Hill provides a chilling diagnosis:
Thirty-three years ago, when I entered college, left-wing ideologies dominated American universities, and especially the humanities and social sciences. But one still could get a fair, balanced education by consulting traditional canonical texts that countered the dogma. Free speech was alive on college campuses. There were hisses and boos, of course, but for the most part, hearing perspectives different from your own was considered essential to your education. Few of us lived in our own curated silos.
Today, after 22 years of being a college professor, and having traveled much of America to lecture, I am sad to say the situation is not the same. The core principles and foundations that keep the United States intact, that provide our citizens with their civic personalities and national identities, are being annihilated. The gravest internal threat to this country is not illegal aliens; it is leftist professors who are waging a war against America and teaching our young people to hate this country.
Due to a favorable political climate and the efforts of pro-American and pro-Western individuals and institutions, the situation in the United States is somewhat less dire than in other Western countries, but the battle is far from over. Just as Bezmenov’s demoralization stage took decades, so will the reversal of the ideologies that are destroying the West. We have no choice but to keep “fighting the good fight.”
Nora D. Clinton is a Research Scholar at the Legal Insurrection Foundation. She was born and raised in Sofia, Bulgaria. She holds a PhD in Classics and has published extensively on ancient documents on stone. In 2020, she authored the popular memoir Quarantine Reflections Across Two Worlds. Nora is a co-founder of two partner charities dedicated to academic cooperation and American values. She lives in Northern Virginia with her husband and son.
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America is on a trajectory where leftist universities may implode. We are not out of the woods yet, but on the right track.
1. Trump cutting off the grant money train. USAID and so many funding sources for leftist clap trap have been shut off. Honestly they probably have not cut deep enough into the uni’s yet.
2. Limits to foreign enrollment. Trump needs to keep going after those visas. That foreign tuition is the margin money maker and Rubio is cutting them off at the knees.
3. US enrollment. The jig is up for fleecing and running up debt on hapless / directionless kids to the tune 100-200k so they can be indoctrinated into leftist ideals and be qualified for a $15/hr job. We are at the front end of kids wising up and it will only get worse.
4. Productive members of society coming up through the trades are prospering without ever setting foot on a college campus. They aren’t going to put up with leftist cry babies stealing their tax dollars for hate and they sure as hell aren’t going to pay for their kids to go attend these hate-mills. We are half a generation away from a complete reversal in America.
Future take overs of the Portland State University library and other such marxist scenes are the nails in the coffin for higher ed here- at least in the liberal arts space.
Also- college bound kids can knock 2 years off of the higher ed bubble where they would be extorted into taking the whack-a-doodle profs in mandatory “rounding out” classes by getting on it in high school.
Most states have a running start or dual enrollment where a lot of that crap gets done on the high school campus. Thus narrowing the window for leftist hate mongers to get their claws into kids.
Randi Weingarten has ensured that whack-a-doodle teaching is also available in most high schools.
Right down to pre school…. remember Hillary’s “It takes a village?”
It takes a leftist village to indoctrinate, infantilize and mobilize students in America. I would have said the more economical “American students,” but rampant socialism/Marxism prevented me from doing so.
That is true. It’s a fight, but a different fight. As voters and to some degree participants in the public school arena- parents have slightly MORE ground to fight from at the primary school level. Also at the primary school level, it’s gun to your head for indoctrination, minus the tuition robbery that takes place at colleges.
While getting a bad teacher fired is hard, getting a bad professor fired is near impossible. Also in high school – kids have some ability to fight back and to be butt heads w/out ZERO ability for the teachers to do anything. The mouth of a 15 year old kid with nothing to lose and who doesn’t care can drive a teacher to the nut house. In college the kid has no power but to take the course elsewhere or at another time… which is also voting.
At colleges, parents have zero standing.
Dual enrollment wastes less of a student’s time. And the peer group is better since most of the other students actually want to be there. And universities consider dual enrollment credits more valuable than government school Advanced Placement credits. AP is designed more for enhancing the reputation of the government school than for enhancing the student’s education. And AP credits require scoring well on a single final exam.
Here are some delightful descriptions via Perplexity:
“A glorified cram-and-dump ritual dressed up as academic rigor”
“An endurance test in memorization masquerading as learning”
“Standardized stress theater with a curve”
“A bureaucratic gauntlet of trivia and time pressure”
“A one-size-fits-all intellectual squeeze”
“An anxiety factory wrapped in Scantron sheets”
“A high-stakes guessing game with academic branding”
“A marathon of regurgitation over understanding”
As Dennis Prager called them Culture Marxism Seminaries, teaching Marxism religion.
Stories close and far, seeming normal kids come back H8ing parents and turned radical Marxists.
“Bezmenov claims the process of demoralization can take between 10 to 30 years, because that is the amount of time it takes to educate a new generation.”
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Bezmenov was amazingly prescient and shrewd, with his time estimate.
NYC is a perfect example — nearly twenty-five years have passed, since Muslim terrorist murdered nearly 3,000 New Yorkers, and more than one million NYC voters voted to install a lazy, entitled, elitist, silver spoon-fed, private sector-avoiding, Jew-hating and Christian-hating Islamofascist/Muslim supremacist/communist fifth columnist as their mayor.
Now retired, I have been in the belly of the beast, and the beast has only grown louder and larger.
Colleges and universities are now “no go” zones for conservatives, conservative thought and critical thinking.
Now subbing in high school, and see it running wild there too.
gop pls keep funding these socialist camps as they wage war against their parents and america
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