On the Wednesday edition of MSNBC’s Way Too Early, Princeton professor and MSNBC contributor Eddie Glaude Jr. said that President Trump’s moves on Harvard are:
“The culmination of a longstanding assault on the part of the right on critical spaces that cultivate, shall we say, a disposition of skepticism and suspicion towards authority. We could take this back to the 1930s. We could take it to the 1950s. Just think about William Buckley’s [1951 book] God and Man at Yale. There was this worry that colleges were distorting and disfiguring the characters of folks who were walking on that campus by really drowning them, soaking them, kind of socializing them in the ideology of secularism and communism.”
At NewsBusters, we take Glaude’s claim, flawed as it was, as a badge of honor. William F. Buckley was the uncle of L. Brent Bozell, founder of the Media…
