Public education has always been linked to communicating a political and social message. One of the justifications for taxing people for public schools was to foster patriotism. What used to be communicated might well have been a history seen through rose-colored glasses, which ignored how unequally women and minorities were treated. But it communicated both knowledge and values. For reasons too numerous to set forth here, public education changed radically over the last fifty years. The value of teaching Western civilization and American history-at least in any way showing any redeeming value in either-has been strongly challenged. As a result, the challenge by intellectual elites to the values of America and the West has resulted in a decline in the teaching of civics. Indoctrination by the right seems to have been replaced by that of the left. Why be taught to criticize what you are being thought? Doesn’t everyone but knuckle-draggers think the same way? You probably could have found more dissent in Stalin’s Presidium than you find among liberal arts faculties on any campus. The graduates are teaching our children.