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A College Fix review of voter registrations in the political science departments of six Pennsylvania universities has exposed a ratio of twenty-eight Democrats for every Republican, with four flagship institutions maintaining faculties entirely devoid of registered Republicans.
The Managerial Priesthood that now governs these departments has not achieved this uniformity through open contest but through systematic exclusion, ensuring that every classroom, every syllabus, and every hiring committee reflects a single ideological inheritance.
Universities once founded as extensions of the medieval project of ordered inquiry under God, from Bologna to Oxford to the colonial colleges of America, have been converted into instruments of the earthly city that demands conformity rather than the discovery of truth.
The Realists of the Western tradition taught that universals exist independently of human opinion and that moral order is received, not invented; the present monopoly replaces that inheritance with the claim that all truth is power and all dissent is crime.
Where the Augustinian distinction between the City of God and the City of Man once preserved space for faithful reason within the academy, the new priesthood has collapsed the distinction and installed the state ideology as the sole permissible creed.
The result is not scholarship but catechesis: students are formed to serve the managerial order rather than to judge it, and the household that once sent its sons to the university now sends them to be dispossessed of their inheritance.
The faithful remnant must therefore withdraw financial and moral support from these captured institutions and build parallel colleges, guilds, and credentialing bodies that restore the authority of what has been handed down.
Only when property, patronage, and pupils are redirected toward ordered households and confessional schools will the spell of the one-party academy be broken.
