A generation of right-of-center intellectuals have abandoned the PhD track

As conservatives were marginalized within academia, potential future professors saw the writing on the wall.

Donors need to support institutions that produce quality PhDs.

Right-of-center intellectuals instead—and not unwisely—chose to do something else.

An online subculture of academics and independent scholars has emerged to fill in the niche.

If education reformers are unable to staff the so-called “ Based Departments ” being established across the country, the entire venture will be a massive waste of money, effort, and political will.

Failure will cement the Left ’s control of the academy, formalize the class distinction between educated Left-elites and the Right.