Chapman University Professor Mark Skousen revealed how he wanted to organize a discussion about Hayek, a Nobel Prize-winning libertarian economist famous for his book “The Road to Serfdom,” and other writings.

“Earlier this year, economist Tawni Hunt Ferrarini and I proposed a session for the January meeting honoring the free-market Austrian Friedrich Hayek on the 50th anniversary of his winning the Nobel Prize,” Skousen wrote on Monday in the Wall Street Journal.

But Harvard University Professor Lawrence Katz said he was “unable to include this session in the program,” according to Skousen. Katz is the incoming president of the economist group (which is run by Democrats).

“It should also be noted that the American Economic Association’s organizing committee greenlit some 45 sessions devoted to topics of diversity, equity, inclusion, inequality, gender, belonging, segregation, sexual harassment, discrimination, race and LBGT,” Skousen wrote. […]

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Hundreds of college courses around the country indoctrinate students with leftist ideology, according to a report recently published by Young America’s Foundation.

YAF’s 29th annual “Comedy and Tragedy Report” provides descriptions of more than 250 courses offered at over 50 universities nationwide “to document the intellectual bias and shameless indoctrination taking place through slanted curriculum at America’s so-called prestigious institutions of higher education.”

Some of the courses in the 53-page report include “Queer Nightlife” and “Music and Socialism” at Brown University, “Race, Climate Change, and Environmental Justice” at Columbia University, “Dangerous Intersections: Intersectionality Beyond Boundaries” at Dartmouth College, and “Queer Nation: LGBTQ Protest, Politics, and Policy in the United States” at Harvard University.

The description of the “Queer Nightlife” course states students will “explore the spaces, the dancing, the outfits, the laws and legal gray areas, the drag, the cruising, and the rumbling bass, textures, and frequencies of queer nightlife.” […]

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