Degrees of failure

Today the war on intellect is no more confined to the authoritarian polities. Open societies are equally waging a war on academia. Big business houses and big tech companies in the US provide donations to academic institutions but these typically come with ideological blinders attached. The University of Utah accepted a $10 million donation from the Charles Koch Foundation to establish a free-market economics programme to counter the ostensibly Marxian bent of the university‘s economics department