re: #73 BeachDem

Bankers are in on it too.

From 2011

John Allison, former chairman of bank holding company BB&T Corp. (BBT), admires author Ayn Rand so much that he devised a strategy to spread her laissez-faire principles on U.S. campuses. Allison, working through the BB&T Charitable Foundation, gives schools grants of as much as $2 million if they agree to create a course on capitalism and make Rand’s masterwork, “Atlas Shrugged,” required reading.

And from 2015

Banking on the Curriculum

One contract included the creation of an Ayn Rand “reading room” in the department, while others stipulated the development of a dedicated “center” of some sort — in some cases, just a website. Others funded faculty chairs or other professorships, contractually geared in some cases to ideological allies…some 42 institutions with Moral Foundations programs also had received donations from the Koch brothers’ charities. Both BB&T and the Kochs also have been major contributors to the Ayn Rand Institute.

insidehighered.com

Yeah Allison used to be at Cato I believe. Agh this sucks. The history department is sane tho.