In today’s Pope Center piece Jay Schalin writes about the flap over the fact that some colleges (including some in NC) have accepted funding from the BB&T Foundation, conditioned upon the creation of courses where Ayn Rand’s philosophy of laissez-faire capitalism is considered. Some profs are objecting on the grounds that the faculty should have control over the curriculum. Jay sees such objections as selective indignation because they haven’t been heard to complain when outside funds are accepted to support courses that are congenial to what Ludwig von Mises called the anticapitalist mentality.
This is the marketplace of ideas at work and there’s no harm in it.
