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US universities are teaching kids to wage war on American society — where has the sanity gone?

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Post Editorial Board. (2026, September 19). US universities are teaching kids to wage war on American society — where has the sanity gone? New York Post. https://nypost.com/2026/09/19/opinion/us-universities-teaching-kids-to-wage-war-on-american-society/

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The Public Interest Legal Foundation reports that left-leaning professors dominate US law schools, outnumbering conservatives seven to one in election law teaching positions. A separate study by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression found only 16% of law faculty believe a conservative would be positively received at their institutions, with nearly 40% viewing conservatives negatively compared to just 3% who feel similarly about liberals. The article argues that this bias normalizes extreme leftist views across academia and influences political movements and technology companies, potentially leading to the election of radical candidates while mainstream media overlooks their controversial backgrounds.
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The New York Post published an editorial by its Editorial Board claiming that American law schools are biased against conservatives, which affects how laws are interpreted and written. According to a study by the Public Interest Legal Foundation, left-leaning professors who teach election law outnumber conservative ones seven to one across nearly 200 ABA-accredited US law schools. Another study from FIRE found that only 16% of law faculty out of about 2,000 professors would consider hiring a conservative person as a very positive fit for their institution. Additionally, over 40% of faculty members across 55 universities surveyed said a conservative colleague would be a poor fit compared to just 3% who felt the same way about liberals. The editorial argues that this bias impacts elections and everyday lawmaking in America, suggesting it undermines fair representation and policy-making.

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And so extremist candidates like Michigan hopeful Abdul El-Sayed, who downplayed 9/11 in a series of now-deleted tweets, or Texas’ James Talarico, who once noted in a sermon that “the American flag is such a complicated symbol for most of us,” stand an excellent chance of becoming US senators, while most media collude in burying their records lest the foolish public object.
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🔮 In fact, a recent Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression study found that only 16% of law faculty (out of some 2,000 profs) say that a conservative person would be a very positive fit in their law school: That bias surely distorts how laws are interpreted — and written — in every facet of American life.

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A new study from the Public Interest Legal Foundation points to how the left’s capture of US law schools in turn directly impacts our elections — but that barely scratches a far, far larger problem. asserted
that → point → problem
Across the nearly 200 ABA-accredited US law schools, PILA data show, lefty professors who teach election law outnumber conservative ones by nearly seven to one; that imbalance drives the endless waves of lawfare against voter ID laws and many other “right-coded” efforts to secure and protect elections (even though Americans overwhelmingly support such common-sense rules). asserted
Americans → accredit → rules
In fact, a recent Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression study found that only 16% of law faculty (out of some 2,000 profs) say that a conservative person would be a very positive fit in their law school: That bias surely distorts how laws are interpreted — and written — in every facet of American life. asserted
laws → find → life
And of course it plagues US academia in general: Another FIRE survey of more than 6,200 faculty at 55 schools across the country found that almost 40% said a conservative colleague would be a poor fit, vs. 3% who said the same of liberals. asserted
who → plague → liberals
Note how extreme that bias is: They don’t even want people on the other side around! asserted
They → note → side
Our universities are so deeply off-center, they normalize beliefs and actions at the far left end of the spectrum, punishing anyone right of, say, Pete Buttigieg. asserted
they → normalize → Buttigieg
And so the children of our elites, from Harvard to Duke to Stanford, sign on enthusiastically to explicitly anti-American political movements: Black Lives Matter, the Palestine goon squads, the DSA and so on. asserted
children → sign → movements
Or merely head off to Silicon Valley to dutifully ensure that frontier AIs get programmed with the woke agenda. asserted
AIs → head → agenda
On every front, colleges feed a vast drive to “improve” American society by warring on it, from the quiet coercion of social-media “guidelines” to violent interference with law enforcement. asserted
colleges → feed → enforcement
And so extremist candidates like Michigan hopeful Abdul El-Sayed, who downplayed 9/11 in a series of now-deleted tweets, or Texas’ James Talarico, who once noted in a sermon that “the American flag is such a complicated symbol for most of us,” stand an excellent chance of becoming US senators, while most media collude in burying their records lest the foolish public object. asserted
public → downplay → records
To say nothing of out-and-out lunatics like Pennsylvania’s Chris Rabb, all but certain to win a House seat in November, whose social media claimed the Bondi Beach slaughter was a false-flag operation. asserted
slaughter → say → November
However any election turns out, the fever swamps of the universities are set to keep on breeding ever-worse political diseases. asserted
swamps → turn → diseases
That makes it urgent to manhandle academia back to some balance and sanity, to bring the schools back into line with their actual missions — preparing the next generation for productive lives as citizens who serve their country, not sleeper agents who work against it. asserted
who → make → it
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