University of California Suffers From Extreme Cultural Marxism

Commentary Back when I was learning Russian at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California from 1978–79, all of our teachers were Russian speakers. They were exiles from Soviet communist tyranny. In addition to the language, they taught us about the suppression of thought under communism. One of my favorite teachers was a middle-aged lady who had received her Ph.D. in classical languages from the University of Moscow. She said the Marxist dictatorship considered studying ancient Greek and Latin a waste of time and preferred English and other modern languages, which were useful for spies and diplomats advancing communist world conquest. But the bosses understood a world-class university had to have a classics Ph.D. program....