God and Man at Yale at 75

The 75th anniversary of William F. Buckley's book, God and Man at Yale, marks a milestone for the work originally released in 1951. In the book, Buckley argued that the Yale faculty were teaching students secularism while dismissing religion as superstition. He also claimed the faculty were indoctrinating students in anti-capitalist economic ideologies that promoted collectivism and socialism.

Writing for Public Discourse, Elizabeth Grace Matthew notes that Buckley wrote the polemic at age twenty-four as a recent graduate. Matthew observes that while the extreme views Buckley described may seem implausible to some today, modern faculty in the humanities and social sciences continue to study complex theories regarding race, sex, and gender. She also notes that these academic shifts occur alongside rising student debt and an increase in teaching roles for adjunct instructors who lack benefits.