Today’s Pope Center piece is my response to a blog post by John Wilson of the American Association of University Professors, written as a reply to my defense of Art Pope’s educational philanthropy and the Pope Center’s work. Wilson attempts to cast the dispute as one between Pope efforts at “buying the curriculum” to impose “ideological control,” and thereby subverting academic freedom and the noble efforts of the AAUP in opposing that. That’s utter nonsense, I argue. The truth of the matter is that it is not possible for anyone to “buy the curriculum.” All any philanthropist can do is to try adding new personnel, programs, and voices on campus. Unfortunately, much of the current professiorate is hostile to ideas that conflict with theirs and, while claiming to protect academic freedom, seeks to protect its own ideological control.