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The character of a regime will be determined by the education it provides to its citizens. This is why the capture of the universities has been so essential to the advance of the group quota regime. Yet conservative efforts to combat the woke domination in this field have been scattered and piecemeal, rarely countering the group quota regime on the fundamental questions. Pavlos Papadopoulos looks to John Adams and the early history of our republic for a comprehensive, alternative vision that will educate citizens prepared to defend and sustain the American regime.
Below is an excerpt from "As the Schools Go, So Goes the Nation."
Confronted by the manifold crises, dysfunctions, and corruptions of the contemporary university, conservatives have excelled at proposing, and adopting, highly-targeted solutions. Is the canon being deconstructed, or simply ignored? Set up an honors program, so students can still choose to study the classics. Are conservatives under-represented in the academy? Establish advocacy groups to promote "viewpoint diversity." Are left-wing students, faculty, and administrators invoking micro-aggressions and political correctness to silence or exclude speakers and teachers? Invoke, once more, the liberal principles of academic freedom, and pressure university administrators to secure them even for right-wing faculty.
Each of these responses is admirable in its intentions and beneficial in its effects. But they are all partial and reactive in nature. Even the most comprehensive and daunting efforts—establishing special institutes and programs, or founding entirely new colleges and universities—rarely challenge the fundamental assumptions of our present educational regime. They typically claim to be returning to the scholarly principles and practices of the very recent past (a decade or two ago), and promise, this time, we won't slip back down the slope.
Even if we continue to pursue piecemeal reforms, we must be clear about the assumptions of our educational regime—and what the alternatives might be. | 
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