Charlie--
I know that a lack of formal education is a point of pride to you, but a few history classes, particularly focusing on the early twentieth century, would benefit you a great deal. The notion, too, that academia has been leading the charge from the left might work for the humanity and social sciences in recent decades (sort of). Less so for business programs, and the sciences had a lot of government contracts in the Cold War. In my own field, I can think of plenty of leading figures in the last 125 years--W.A. Dunning, Ulrich Phillips, the consensus guys, off the top of my head--who weren't lefties, while real innovators like Herbert Aptheker couldn't get jobs due to the Red Scare. So I'm calling bull$#!t.
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