Why have think tanks funded by right-wing mega-donors paid such attention to college campuses? One answer is that the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, and the increased visibility of queer and trans people, fundamentally threaten the libertarian and conservative ideologies that justify the obscene wealth hoarded by these donors. Since 2020, for example, millions of people came into the streets demanding that governments take action to address the COVID-19 pandemic and structural racism. In recent years, young people have demanded climate action. These demands for collective solutions to social problems threaten the ultra-wealthy mega-donors, who see all collective goods and collective action as proceeding along the road to socialism.

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by Isaac Kamola, Inside Higher Ed.

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