A new shock poll from Harvard’s student newspaper, the Crimson, shows that of graduating seniors, only 6.4% are conservative-leaning in their politics. This is of course wildly out of step with a country almost evenly divided ideologically. While the poll raises familiar questions about progressive hegemony in arts, entertainment, corporate boardrooms, and a plethora of other American institutions, in this case, it is particularly dangerous.
Harvard, and indeed the entire Ivy League play a unique role in how America governs itself. In fact, they always have. Part of the raison d’etre of America’s oldest college was to produce men who learned enough to serve in the government of the fledgling Massachusetts Bay Colony of the mid-17th Century. Nearly 400 years later Harvard is still a pipeline to power, it is still where those who make decisions for others are trained in such pursuits.
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